What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.
And one of the most important values of Barack Obama is that he will always level with the American people.
Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up.
If we keep treating our most important values as meaningless relics, that's exactly what they'll become.
Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring.
We need to look at the whole society and think, "Are we actually thinking about what we're doing as we go forward, and are we preserving the really important values that we have in society? Are we keeping it democratic, and open, and so on?"
If you want to move people, it has to be toward a vision that's positive for them, that taps important values, that gets them something they desire and it has to be presented in a compelling way so that they feel inspired to follow.