Reach a level of integrity, honesty, and decency, has a longdistance runner, you have to kill something in yourself, fear. You have to kill something in yourself, europe session with position in status and wealth. Announcer followed by john did forth honor author of the religion does point is beyond ourselves. People, to the, you know, what is it ever may . It is not central. Announcer at 10 00, claire talks about her book. A memoir about her Life Experience in local state and federal government. I dont think we do anybody any favors by trying to dress up politicians as if we are not real human beings that have made major mistakes. And have major problems in our lives. Announcer saturday evening, it is cut in on National Review founder William F Buckley juniors run for that mayor of new york city in 1965 and at 11 00, Winston Groom discusses his latest book. One of the first questions im usually asked when i do a tv or radio show is why did you choose these three men from the Second Wo
Rita moreno, seiji ozawa, carole king, george lucas, cicely tyson. Each of these artists was born with Something Special to offer their country and the world. Each of them found a way to enrich our lives with their work. For all the joy in the pleasure all the insight and understanding that they have brought to us over the years. We want to thank them. And we sure are proud to celebrate them as our Kennedy Center honorees. Please give them a big round of applause. [applause] [i feel pretty] [applause] [i feel pretty] [applause] announcer friday on cspan, bill clinton speaks on bipartisanship at the dole center in kansas. Watch friday at 8 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Journal,xt washington a look at how campaign 2016 has differed from past campaigns in terms of Media Coverage and rhetoric. Our guest is paul glastirs. Then, authors week continues with craig shirley, author of last act. Live everyjournals morning at 7 00 eastern on cspan. Heu can join t conversation thvia facebook and twitter.
And also, oversight over how tax dollars apart from social insurance are spent. This is an arena which is, at present, shaped heavily by corporations that, despite record profits, pay far less in taxes as a percent of the federal budget than in the 1950s and 1960s. The democracy gap in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote or listlessly vote for the least worst every four years and then wonder why after another cycle the least worst gets worse. It is time to redress fundamentally these imbalances of power. We need a deep initiatory democracy in the embrace of its citizens, highlighting the humane ideas and practical ways to raise and meet our expectations and resolve our societys deficiencies and injustices. A few illustrative questions can begin to raise our expectations why cant the wealthiest nation in the world abolish the chronic poverty of millions of working and nonworking americans, including our children . Are we re
One clear sign of the reign of corporations over our government is that the key laws passed in the 1960s and 1970s that we use to curb corporate misbehavior would not even pass through congressional committees today. Planning ahead, multinational corporations shaped the world trade organizations autocratic and secretive governing procedures to undermine nontrade health, safety, and other Living Standard laws and proposals to do better. Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves to ask to choose between lookalike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interests nullifies genuine voter choice and trust. Our elections have been put out for auction to the highest bidders. Public elections must be publicly financed and it can be done with wellpromoted voluntary checkoffs and free tv and radio time for ballotqualified candidates. Either we have voluntary Public Fina
Possible 2016 president ial candidate whos speaking at this years conservative Political Action conference was former hewlettpackard ceo carly fiorina. Her remarks are about 20 [ cheers and applause ] hello. Hi, everybody. Wow. This is in the round here. This is like vegas. I love it. It is great to see everybody. Governor, thank you for spending some time. Thanks, laura. Were really close here. We are. I was thinking about this when i was asked to do this today. Its been about 2 1 2 years, governor, since you graced my radio show and youre not exactly a regular on the talk radio circuit. What gives . Are we the ugly stepchildren of the media . No, laura. I have my own radio show. So i dont want to help the competition. I do my own radio. But you know well see how this goes today. Maybe well come back more. Oh, gee, thanks. Instant feedback. Okay. Got it. Look, this has been a rough couple months for you in the media. We have read articles about how you came in as a reformer and now so