yes, we can't do it by finger-pointing, as lynden johnson said, come, let us reason together. >> diversifying the people that are out there for people -- maybe seeing more of themselves, more minority representation and maybe even more minority involvement in politics. >> all right, as i said to someone yesterday, we have more minority representation in america today than ever in the history of the country. i think better or worse? and i leave that answer to you but i will further respond to you by saying, that's not the answer. question isn't who you -- who the representatives are, government is the people, joyce, i keep going back to lincoln. it's simple. if we have those who understand that their responsibility is to represent us not themselves and that in so doing, if they don't, we say, thank you, we don't need you anymore. we will get those who can and if what you're doing isn't proposing to be representative of us, we want that change by the next group of people we put. no, i don't think the answer comes as the necessary racial quarter basis of increasing that number. the question is i