Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.

Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past.

Debates require a lot of hard work and preparation. If you try to wing it, it shows.

Reasonable people can reasonably disagree on policy.

Mitt Romney is a businessman, a turnaround artist, a CEO. That is who he is. The former governor has experience in the public and private sector.

If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is truly a civilization lost.

Presidents should do whatever possible and practical to encourage an environment of cooperation and bipartisanship. And they should maintain a certain level of decorum, diplomacy and decency. But, at the end of the day, presidents get elected to enact change.