My Politics

The most important duty I have as a citizen of the United States is to vote for my values.
 
  • I appreciate living in the United States of America.  I accept that things will never be perfect and that we are living in a compromise.  All of us must be flexible and respectful.

     

  • The United States of America must be viable and reliable in the long term.  It must have integrity.

     

  • Elected Officials should be qualified and have Integrity.  They should be nurturing Leaders, not Dictators.

     

  • The Government needs to be fiscally careful and responsible. Budgets should be balanced.

     

  • We should be governed in such a way that we can compete in the international arena.

     

  • The Educational systems need to be excellent.

     

  • The Healthcare systems need to be excellent.

     

  • We must maintain a fair Judicial System and uphold the Rules of Law.

     

  • National Security and Defense must be maintained.

     

  • We must promote social justice and equality.  We need to be fair with each other.

     

  • We must protect our Planet.
    • I trust and appreciate properly interpreted data.
    • I do believe that humans are warming the planet.

       

  • We must work to become more closely bonded Internationally, less war-like.

     

  • We need to recognize that we must become star travelers.  

 

  • Benjamin Franklin: “Where liberty dwells, there is my country.” 
  • Alexis de Tocqueville (French political thinker): “America is great because she is good. If she ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great.” 
  • Oprah Winfrey: “It’s important…that we establish that we are a country that has open arms…It’s about an ideal, and that ideal is freedom for everybody.”
  • Theodore Roosevelt: “I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.”
  • Condoleezza Rice: “The essence of America—that which really unites us—is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion—it is an idea—and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.” 
  • Carl Sandburg (poet): “You can’t be an American without loving America. Love it or leave it, that’s my principle.”
  • James Baldwin (novelist): “I love America more than any other country in the world and exactly for this reason, I insist on the fact that it can be better.” 
  • Abraham Lincoln: “…a government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” 
  • John F. Kennedy: “Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.”
  • Ronald Reagan: “I’ve always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other.”
  • Barack Obama: “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower: “The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.”
  • George Washington: “The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.”
  • Theodore Roosevelt: “Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
  • Thomas Jefferson: “The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”
  • Alexander Hamilton: “Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.”