Tim Ryan: “What we want for kids, for young people, it is not that we do not want them ever to make a mistake. We want to teach…”

“What we want for kids, for young people, it is not that we do not want them ever to make a mistake. We want to teach them that when they do make a mistake, they learn and they overcome and they become better. Every one of us in our own lives looks back on mistakes we have made and we say it was painful, it hurt, it was embarrassing, but today I am better because of that mistake. And to have the leaders of the country send a message out to the kids across the country, one, that it is okay to lie, that it is okay to withhold information because it may be a little bit embarrassing, that you are never able to make a mistake, that is bad for our kids. It is bad for our country. It is bad for our institution. It erodes the basic tenets of our democracy that a lot of people made a lot of great sacrifices, sometimes their lives, to uphold this concept that we have.”