Jane Harman
Jane Harman
Jane Margaret Lakes Harmanis the former U.S. Representative for California's 36th congressional district, serving from 1993 to 1999, and from 2001 to 2011; she is a member of the Democratic Party. Resigning from Congress in February 2011, Harman became President and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She succeeded former Congressman Lee Hamilton and is the first woman to lead the 45-year-old “living memorial” to America’s 28th President...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth28 June 1945
CountryUnited States of America
Hundreds of years of leadership and experience has walked out the door in the last year, ... and more senior people are making critical career decisions as we speak.
He came in with lots of baggage. . . . No one would have been surprised had he not been a star. But he dispelled all of that very quickly.
looked like it had been the victim of attack by a weapon of mass destruction.
Anyone who came in when he did would have had a steep hill to climb, in part because change can be difficult,
The military can set an example, ... I would suggest our president declare right now that we are transitioning our military fleet to alternative energy.
These topics bear little resemblance to the urgent recommendations made by the 9/11 commission,
If the withdrawal from Gaza goes badly, obviously, that will set us back.
Goss must persuade the public that he has dealt fairly with his agency's past mistakes
In a post-9/11 world, diversity has become even more important.
The full facts of the case, including the role of Vice President Cheney, will come out at Libby's trial. But one thing is beyond dispute: Senior officials at the White House set out to discredit Ambassador Wilson, who contradicted the administration's claim that Iraq was acquiring nuclear material, ... They did this in an insidious way, by exposing the identity of his wife.
The Committee's review of a series of intelligence shortcomings, to include intelligence prior to 9/11 and the pre-war intelligence on Iraq, clearly reveal how vital a diverse intelligence workforce is to our national security.
The fog of war is thick, but these acts of abuse and humiliation contradict international norms, military regulations and the very values that our military fights to defend,
The fog of law is finally lifting. America's moral black eye is finally healing.
In 1969, when I graduated from Harvard Law School, women and minorities made up a tiny fraction of the first year associates accepted by top law firms.