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supporters of the military. in this country, in fact, they are essentially a group of people who are about as american as you can get. what we learned about this sort of culture of poverty in the cities, we learn that segregation matters. segregation matters. there is a long history of how america has treated them. look at the early civil rights leaders, segregation was a problem. martin luther king was referring to the need for integration. about the same time there was this group going against the culture, there is also a reaction the idea of segregation as problematic. coming from the black leadership. and the same set of forces, in fact, they come from the rise of black pride. to learn and so on. what it did, as well as the most decorated sociologist tried to point out, it brings segregation off the table. let me tell you, it is a problem. to succeed in america, you need not just book knowledge, not the knowledge you learn in school, but cultural and social capital. ....
was on valentine s day was diagnosed with lung cancer. and she had been a lifetime smoker. and her disease progressed very quickly. and so by the end of april of 2004, i was at the u.s. attorney s national conference in san diego and i got a call from my younger brother saying to me, listen, mom s back in the hospital. really bad. if you want to see her you have to get home now. i flew back to new jersey and landed at newark airport and got in the car and drove to the hospital. and i got there and they started to give her more phone and trying to pain and i waited for her to wake up. she had not seen me for a week and said what day is it? i said it s friday. she said what time is it? 9:30 in the morning. she said go to work. [laughter] governor christie: i said, mom i decided to take the day off. i m going to spend the day with you. she said christopher, it is a work day go to work. i said are you afraid i m taking advantage of taxpayers money. she said go to work it s ....
at the end of the week. others getting an early start on the weekend when a man in the terminal pulls an assault rifle out of a bag and starts shooting. he blasts his way where passengers normally exit and then makes it a actual way to gates before he is shot by police. one tsa officer is dead, the first killed in the line of duty in the 12-year history. multiple other officers were hurt. airport authorities say in all some seven people were injured, at least one critically. the suspected gunman is paul anthony ciancia, originally from new jersey, living in los angeles, employment unknown, motive unknown, but apparently was carrying paper that said kill tsa. in new jersey where his family still lives he sent a text just this morning mentioning suicide. pensacolaville police called los angeles police asking to check on him. his roommate said he hasn t seen him but then it was too much. traffic in l.a.x. ground nearly to a halt. only now nearly seven hours after the incid ....
parents i told them that if you do not send your daughters to school, then the enemy wins. i told them not to give into darkness. in so many ways, in so many ways, the afghan people, and especially afghan women and girls have fought back against that darkness. we mentioned earlier that 8.3 million young people are in school today and nearly 40% are girls. women and girls who have gained access to health care do not want to see a return to high mortality rates. the young women who fought for their education and health now want jobs that utilize their skills and will allow them to contribute to afghan society. one example of that is a woman i met a couple of years ago, an entrepreneurial woman from western afghanistan. i came to know her over the past several years just because she traveled to the united states, but because she came to northeastern pennsylvania where i live. she met with folks in a lot of different places, including northeastern pennsylvania. to say t ....
introduction. i am honored to be back here. i am grateful to have this chance to talk about this topic which has dominated our discussions here in washington for more than a decade. i am grateful for the opportunity to be back here. when you get invited summer to speak, if you get invited back that is a good thing. i am grateful. i want to thank the centers for american progress for the work that you do. often in the congress we have exposure to a lot of data, a lot of information, a lot of hearings and briefings. but sometimes you do not have the policy work in front of you that you would hope sometimes. centers for american progress has been a great value to me and i know two other senators. to other senators. i want to thank you for agreeing to moderate our conversation today, caroline. i know we will get to that later and we will certainly take questions from the audience. i am grateful, in addition to the folks in the audience who actually work at cap, to say hel ....