The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.

No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions.

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.

One day this war will end. And when it does, Tule Lake will be just a memory.

This is a battle, but it's not the war. We consider this one of the civil-rights issues of the 21st century, and we're going to continue to fight it, in Florida and elsewhere.

I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.