They are heroes who deserve the appreciation of a grateful nation.
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Statement on the Crash of a North Carolina Air National Guard C-130 in South Dakota
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Those are all topics that we have to be able to discuss honestly and forthrightly, while we still insist that in that process of debate, we respect other people's right to say things that we profoundly disagree with.
We can’t let a systematic assault on democracy just happen and stand by and so because of your actions, because of your courage, what you’ve seen is California responding, other states looking at what they can do to offset this mid-decade gerrymandering.
And in defense of the country. And in defense of the world that you want to leave to your children and your grandchildren.
I think that approach is a smart, measured approach, designed to address a very particular problem in a very particular moment in time.





