And we were on the last draft of the beach that have been closely held. I took it up to him and you obviously obviously knew this speech inside out. I will never forget this. It was very corny but a experience for me. I gave you the speech and you didnt say anything for a moment moment of any set i just want to push the envelope as far as i can on human rights and womens rights. [applause] i was so struck by that. This is the corny part. I was so glad to be in america and to have a first lady who is going to go into what was kind of the diplomatic minefield at that time and make this assertion. You went on to say after that that womens issues and womens rights are the Unfinished Business of the world. Im just wondering where do you think things stand now . Listen that speech which you worked so hard on an Madeline Albright was with us and she provided great feedback as we were going to the drafts, was so important to me personally because i thought the United States needed to leave on
Assad then were looking at a war in the middle east that is going to cross borders and potentially threaten the larger region and beyond. The latest figures ive seen is that there are more than a thousand fighters on behalf of extremist groups in syria comment from just europe. And with open borders, no visa restrictions, somebody wrote in france or germany or britain or the netherlands were ever will be able to come home and will be able to travel. So this has been vocations far beyond what if anything we think we can and should do to try to stave off a total collapse of the maliki government. I would just add one other note. If you look at where we are in the region, the conflict in syria, which right now is still a stalemate, but i thought this control in large parts of the country. But there is many hundreds of thousands of refugees in jordan, lebanon, turkey erratic and you have the tensions that are pervasive throughout the region be really fat on fire in iraq right now. It could
Give you the readers a bit of a peek behind the curtain because the headlines certainly tell some of the story but not all of the story. Its more difficult to even get information about the socalled trendlines. I wanted to combine both in the hardest part for me about writing this book was that it was believe it or not three times longer when i first finished it. I wanted to put every funny story, every bizarre meal i mean whatever i could remember and wanted to share and the publisher did say you have got to cut twothirds of this book. And so i worked hard to keep the combination of seriousness because obviously theres a lot of that but also the human side. Not just me but what i saw and learned as i traveled around the world. You have never been shy about your opinions but it does seem to me you are free to speak your mind these days. I think thats true from some of their reactions that ive had over the last few days. [laughter] i say in the book that maybe its just the wonderful wea
When you look at the details and they have details in the report. Every category and level of experience within that category is the salary paid to somebody in the local government is higher than people in private industries. Thank you, sir. We have time for one more question. I am just barely old enough to remember word sentinual. There was one word never brought up. Madden, public enemy number one. The reason i dont share your optmism is the Redistricting Initiative and i would like to know what you think about that and the implications. I think we both feel strongly the redistricting issue should be on the ballot. We recommend it in the book. I think it is number 97 or 98 in the book. It is one of the proposals we make in the corruption chapter. We support an independent Redistricting Commission and it needs to be done to have better accountability and more competition. With more competition you will have greater voter interest because people will debate different points of view and