As a former minority leader who became the first Republican Speaker of the House in Florida since Reconstruction, I know that leadership is not an easy task.

My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.

If we do our job right, then we have everything to stand on. If we don't do our job, we have everything to lose on.

Some people have been talking about - every place I go, they bring up the issue of foreign aid. I go, 'You can't get rid of all foreign aid.'

I think integration in Norway is, by all standards, going relatively well. People are working, taking education, learning the language. But, yes, it is a challenge. And democracy and democratic debate has to be open to take that debate openly and not push questions aside.

Thanks to advancements in gender equality, you now have salty women like me who not only follow politics but also share their opinions on the daily.

In 'Healing the Soul of America,' I wrote about Gandhi's notion of soul force in politics and why it matters to stand on your truth.

We've been living with this myth that somehow government investment in research has not been critical to economic growth.