Tim Walz

I represent the Mayo Clinic and they tell me, the Vista system in the VA is the best medical record in the world.

I know my colleague gave a kind introduction and associated you and I together as friends, but I think Harry Truman was right.

It takes 40 years of rapid economic development, not 40 weeks or 40 months.

What do we need to do? Because it is about the personal, it is about remembering those names...

What about 30-year-old and younger Chinese?

You can easily prove that grass doesn't grow. Take a chair, go out into your yard, and sit for several hours watching the grass.

I'm fascinated by this because I see this--you mentioned something and you said never in your diplomatic career had you seen such a misnomer of the reality.

If we do not commemorate and we do not remember those who were willing to risk all, it puts all of us at risk of history forgetting the lessons that were there.

I think your point about it here is, we can't agree it's Tuesday in this body.

I think many of them, once they knew, would stand proudly with those fighters of human rights.

Democracy isn't just elections--it's freedom of the press, which can get at corruption, which is a key issue for China.

My belief was this was one of those.

I have to tell you, I taught American high school and college students. They don't know this story.

None of those things can happen if we don't talk about them.

It is so refreshing to hear the rejection of the simplistic look at things and to get at the heart of this.

It's critical for us to understand and it's certainly critical for us as Americans to do soul-searching of our own.

And patriotism and nationalism were not synonymous.

We are grateful. We'll stay on this.

I think it's important to realize there really are limits to what not just the United States, but anybody, can do.

Why would anyone ever change the status quo until it starts getting unpleasant?

Why does it forget if it's not economics? Why do you get the pass?

I could only hope that she would be as courageous in a similar situation as you have shown.

China is always going to act in its perceived interests.

the pivot does not appear to involve a commensurately greater effort on human rights issues in Asia.

Yes, I think it's very insightful. Many of us mark time from that.