“If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld?”

But it is equally incontrovertible that if our intelligence gathering process is seriously flawed, we had better find out and find out fast if we are to avoid another Sept. 11.

I would need to see changes in the Iraq governance. Otherwise I don’t think strikes are going to have any impact and could be very well counterproductive.

The Gulf states are happy for us to fight and die. That’s good for everybody, but the Americans fighting and dying.

Unless action is taken soon – unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period – we will lose the treasure of California’s open space and environmental beauty.

If we can’t get the Maliki government to include a large segment of its population in its security forces and protection

And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies – we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.

While our country has made great strides in breaking down the barriers which for so long denied equal opportunity to all Americans

We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy.

By his own admission, was discussing the future of Director Comey in that job, and the president brings up whether he is under investigation, highly unethical, at a minimum, unethical.

And there has to be a far stronger mechanism for being able to track down people, have overstayed their visas, to have a responsibility for who they’re coming to visit or stay with.

At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.

If they exist, Congress needs to get them. If they’re not provided willingly, Congress should subpoena them.

The most important thing to me is that the president Donald Trump fired the FBI director James Comey all because of the Russia investigation.

The president [Barack Obama] is not willing to send in apaches and spotters if the Iraqis say they don’t want them and if it means that these Shia mobilization forces are going to be going after and trying to kill Americans.

Donald Trump and his personal attorney want to lay the foundation to discredit whatever Bob Mueller comes up with.

Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.