our first speaker is madeleine kunin, governor of vermont from 1985 to 1991. she won the eleanor roosevelt medal for her service. the first to be elected for three terms. turn the clinton administration, she served as deputy secretary of the u.s. department of education, and in 1996 was appointed ambassador to switzerland. she is currently a professor at the university of vermont, and commodore on vermont public greater, and a blogger on the huffington post. has the guts to these introductions, you have a full introduction in your program. it is a pleasure at you and thank you for coming. >> thank you very much. [applause] >> the first one they say is it is great to be in thisyou feel f history going through the room. i am honored to be visiting a land of lincoln. this is a broad subjects. you can look at it from the point of view as educating students to be the future leaders. you can also look at it at the point of view of dealing with existing leaders and how we help them do their job better.% i will zero in on three points. one is the question of policy an

i would echo what governor kunin said, get involved. work within the parties and try to get them to reach consensus and not go off to the right or the left. >> hello. my name is jame. s. and i am a general citizen. >> the most important person here. >> supposedly. as a person of my age -- i am in my late 20s, early '30's -- how is it that we can communicate to you as a legislative bodies our interests? because it seems like things get modeled up with private interests, lobbyists, things like that. personally, i am actually -- i live in arizona. i, myself, i am not a supporter of the legislation that went through earlier. i think that is something that is not representative of the entire state of arizona, either. i think there is a serious lack of trust, a serious lack of doubt, that our will, our ideas, and our communications with you are actually being followed through on. what comments you have on that and what is the best way we can communicate to you what our will is as the general populace? >> >do not underestimate your own power a

i would echo whatovernor kunin said, get involved. work within the parties and try to get them to reach consensus and not go off to the right or the left. >> hello. my name is jame. s. and i am a general citizen. >> the most important person here. >> supposedly. as a person of my age -- i am in my latt 20s, early '30's -- how is it that we can communicate to you as a legislative bodies our interests? because it seems like things get modeled up with private interests, lobbyists, things like that. personally, i am actually -- i live in arona. i, myself, i am not a supporter of the legislation that went through earlier. i think that is something that is not representative of the entire state of arizona, either. i think there is a serious lack of trust, serious lack of doubt, that our will, our ideas, and our communications with you are actually being followed through on. what comments you have on that and what is the best way we can communicate to you what our will is as the general populace? >> >do not underestimate your own power and o