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Thank you, secretary kerry. And, of course, our gracious hosts today and over the next couple of days. I wish to acknowledge your contribution this morning. Thank you very much for that very inspiring statement. Excellencies, friends of the ocean, ladies and gentlemen, let me begin by greeting you, bringing the greetings from the people of my country young, old and on whose behalf im very honored to be here to address this conference. In my country we usually begin by conferring blessings on eac...

Think most americans have r an m idea of what the face of poverty is, what an individual in po poverty actually looks like and i think through these recent times people realize its ink affected everybody, rural, big cities, small communities, et cetera,le of b eve of every c. But today, as it stands, do any of you know, when it comes to wn the percent of people on public assistance, is the majority assn nonwhite minority or nonminority white. Does anybody know that figure . I dont know the figur...

Understand most of the time. Maybe thats true. Most of the time theres someone on the legislators staff who understands it. Thats not necessarily the case with intelligence bill. On the senate side you have one dedicated staffer who is clear, who can talk to their boss about these things. On the house side they are pretty dependent on the committee staff. For example sessen brenner who wrote freedom acts bill is completely cut out of the negotiations with the administration over what to include ...

Term limited after eight years in office. [applause] i am steve barnes. The rules for the debate as always were agreed upon by all of the candidates prior to the debate and they are these, each nominee will have one minute to respond to questions in the candidates will have 30 seconds for rebuttal if they elect to use those 30 seconds, and at the conclusion of questioning, each candidate will have one minute for closing statement. The order of candidate questioning was determined prior to the de...

Sanders that we are putting kids on a pathway to prosperity and building a skilled, qualified workforce at home so everyone has opportunity. Making sure the communities our kids grow up in are safe. These are the things i will focus on and prioritize as governor and these are the things i spent the last two years talking about in the state of arkansas. Mr. Jones, you have one minute. Jones thank you to the moderators. Sarah, thank you for being here for the first time. This has always been about...

Politics and thank you for attending todays program. Discussion groups are made possible by the new mens own foundation and would like toe thank the family fun for sponsoring. Todays program will be live streamed and available on our youtube channel. We arer also excited that cspan is recording this session. You canth also access all past Dole Institute program by visiting our youtube channel. After the program well have time for audience questions. If you have a question please racial your hand...

Were coming up on a historic milestone, half a century since the signing of the long overdue, bitterly struggled for, bipartisanly enacted as republicans in the lead sh may i had, Civil Rights Act of 1964. 99 years after that, long delayed steps towards realizing our stated ideal in the declaration, cited often in this all created equal. This distinguished panel will discuss for half an hour and half a day and not do justice to the subject the question, can america be post racial . Ill be pushin...

So one of the bills we brought up, there might be some disagreement. The e. P. A. Wants to shut down all development of fossil fuels. They are trying to kill the coal industry and going after natural gas and will go after oil as well. If you look at one area that most people across the country is the keystone xl pipeline. Here you got a proposal from canada, whos a friend of ours. Canada wants to send 800,000 barrels of oil a day to the United States and they would spend 5 billion of private mon...

Vietnam was toward the end of the war. Summer of 70 to summer of 71. The experience stuck with me less because of anything i experienced as a combat platoon leader, but from what i saw in terms of the it gave me an idea of the terrible effects of long war. How long were you in the army . 15 years. We served until 1992. It was a year in vietnam early on. But for the most part, i was my experiences were those of a serving officer in the latter part of the cold war. We thought that we existed to be...

As not simply honorable but almost a part of what it meant to be a citizen. I grew up in that environment. When it came time to go to college, i had choices. And i think i went to west point, not because i thought i was going to be a career officer, but because i was attracted to what they had to offer and thought i would save my parents some money by paying for my education. They paid for you go there too, slight. Its a stiphon. Its spending money, more than spending money, yes . Where did you ...