George H.W. Bush: “We can have real criminal law reform without hollow gestures.”

We've seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty.

American officials must heed the lessons of the short-lived coup in 2002, when Bush Administration support for Chavez's ouster undermined America's standing in the region and damaged our credibility as a defender of democracy.

This means that people of every race, religion, ethnicity can be fully and equally American. It means that bigotry or white supremacy in any form is blasphemy against the American creed.

I want to thank Senator Cardin for his tremendous leadership, for years, on human rights issues.