[applause] a number of you know me from previous years. Its hi pleasure to be here to welcome its my pleasure to be here to welcome you and on behalf of Miamidade College, the college that really puts forth maximum effort in terms of solen b tiers volunteers from all its constituents, students, faculty and staff to make this book fair happen as it does every single year. And for the past 30 years. Id like to thank our sponsors, there are many of them, but in particular o. H. Aryan know and American Airlines for their sport. Id also like to thank our friends, many of whom are seated right here in front. Thank you so much for all of your support this year and for the past years that this fair has been made possible in part because of your generosity. The end of the session, as you know, the authors will be signing their books. Theyll be autographing on this floor on the other side of the elevator so you can proceed to that end, and you will also have an opportunity to ask questions after
Perfect. The Founding Fathers set up a first tee with the imperfections. Its called working together to solve problems. If theres a thick, thin me to be ironed out, glitches like fixing the website. Obviously the website should work. The Affordable Care act as i described this afternoon is so much more than a website. It means so much more to millions of people. Im ready. All of my colleagues on my side of the aisle are ready, willing and able to hammer out some of those problems that crop up. What we are not willing to do was repeal it and go backwards. [applause] is there any chance that congress will Work Together . Specifically, im a lemonade in the salary cap on the fakir reductions. , federal reductions . Fica for Social Security. You now, that concept is part of the broader discussion, which i hope we get to in congress on what to do about making sure that we had to do one terms of the sea of Social Security. Its really important and theres a variety of Different Things we can d
Its a real treat, a real pleasure and honor to introduce you to Thomas Cahill. [laughter] and so its a real treat, its a real pleasure, its a real honor to be here today to introduce you to Thomas Cahill. You know, there are authors who write books about things that matter, and there are authors who write books that matter. And occasionally an author comes along who writes a book and accomplishes both. And when that happens, we have an extraordinary opportunity, a rare opportunity to piece to see a little bit more deeply, to glimpse the heart of who we are as human beings. For those of you who are familiar with the writings of Thomas Cahill, then i need not tell you that he is one of these authors and that heretics and heroes is one of these books. And for those of you who are new to Thomas Cahill, well, youre if for a big treat. In heretics and heroes, we are sort of given and afforded the leisurely stroll through the thrilling period of the renaissance and the reforbe mission. Reform