All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.

And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction.

In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.

Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy.

I am one who believes that the market, properly incentivized, can consistently outperform government regulation on achieving objectives.

The struggle for equality is really a struggle for democracy, and that's why it's a struggle for all the population.

You look at the Americans. They don't lack fervour in moral causes. They promote democracy, freedom of speech, women's rights, gay rights, sometimes even transgender rights. But you don't see them applying that universally across the world with all their allies.

The Israeli government has already established a fund to encourage young Arab women, specifically from the Bedouin community, to study engineering. We are funding their university studies and providing them with mentors who assist them with their studies and the job placement process.