George H.W. Bush: “I am pleased to announce my intention to nominate Gordon K. Durnil to be a Commissioner.”

I think you are engaging in the soft bigotry of low expectations.

You know, Brian, if this thing works out the way the Canada/United States free trade agreement has gone so far, 25 years from now the ideal result might be the following: There will be prosperity in--added prosperity in Canada, in the…

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.

We know that free governments are the only way to ensure that the strong are just, and the weak are valued. And we know that when we lose sight of our ideals, it is not democracy that has failed. It is the failure of those charged with…