Geneva Overholser - We suffer from a terrible poverty of civic discourse in this country. Surel

We suffer from a terrible poverty of civic discourse in this country. Surely, it is outside of America's best traditions to send the signal that patriotism is mindless emotion, that leadership is avoiding saying tough things, that citizenship is toeing the line. But such is the result of a lack of openness, our nervousness with debate.

- Geneva Overholser

topic: Country, America, Suffering, Nervousness