Let me end tonight with the week I just spent teaching at the University of San Francisco.
You know what young people want to know? They want to know how we can make this democracy of ours work for the country, how we can get good people to lead us, can find people who are ready to be good people.
When does “hardball politics” become “dirtball”? Great question. The only answer I could come up with was the truth. When politicians lie about each other, that’s dirtball. When they try and suppress the vote because they win the public’s support, that’s dirtball, isn’t it?
How do we control the power of big money in politics? That’s the hard one, isn’t it? Because if money has a louder voice, a bigger role than the regular voter, what do you honestly tell the regular voter and his or her power to guide our country in the best direction?








