Media Coverage Archive

Senator Lugar joins the On Point program to discuss the Bipartisan Index.

An analysis this month by the nonpartisan Lugar Center and Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy found that the past two Congresses have been the most partisan of the last two decades.

Gates had nothing but kind words for former U.S. Senator Richard Lugar ‘54. Denison alumni, Richard Lugar has been on Denison’s Board of Trustees since 1966 and helped establish the Richard G. Lugar Program in Politics and Public Service in 1994. Dr. Gates spoke of Lugar’s time in office as “bridge-building” in relation to partisanship, and focused on the importance of getting things right.

Moscow is doing its best to undermine European solidarity against Russian aggression.

When considering U.S. foreign assistance programs, one often hears calls for sustainability. In other words, programs should promote the partner developing country’s ability to graduate from aid and take charge of its own economic growth. Achieving sustainability requires investments in human and institutional capacity. For food security and global agriculture, this means building the capacities of countries to solve their own problems. 

WASHINGTON – Former Sen. Richard Lugar remembered Monday how hard it was to persuade  some of his colleagues 24 years ago to approve a program to secure or destroy weapons of mass destruction in the former Soviet Union.

Washington, DC (Monday, February 23, 2015) -- The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) today announced it presented the Honorable Richard G. Lugar with the “Strengthening Civil Society” Thought Leader Award at the 2015 Association of Public Television Stations (APTS) Public Media Summit in Washington, D.C.

The United States and Russia must recognize the imperative to provide global leadership. The consequences of inaction are simply too great.

When Rajiv Shah steps down as administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development early next month, someone will take over leadership of the U.S. government’s $20 billion foreign assistance portfolio. But who?

Another key architect of the programs, former Republican senator Richard Lugar of Indiana,  who last visited some of the facilities in 2012, said he wonders if the Russians have the expertise needed to keep track of the vast amount of nuclear bomb material.

The interests of the United States are threatened by a broad range of conditions that will become worse in the absence of progress on basic indices of human development. This is no time to coast. From the recent Ebola outbreaks, to the instability caused by chronic hunger, to terrorist recruitment fueled by crushing poverty, the United States has a deep interest in being a leader on development issues. The President should find an Administrator who will command immediate respect in Congress and overseas and who is dedicated to two years of strengthening the momentum created by Dr. Shah.

“You are the most important people I will have the opportunity to talk to” this year, he told the crowd in Ransburg Auditorium. “You have so much ahead of you that is possible.”

"You are the most important people I'm ever going have the opportunity to talk to," Lugar told the 450 high school juniors who gathered for the 38th annual Lugar Symposium for Tomorrow's Leaders. "You have so much ahead of you."

INDIANAPOLIS - A longtime Indiana senator is passing on his decades of experience to aspiring politicians across the state.

Indy Politics spends a few minutes talking with former U.S. Senator Richard Lugar about the state affairs in the world as well as in Washington, D.C.

Carter has called Lugar "one of the very wisest leaders of a generation on national security matters.”

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — According to former Sen. Richard Lugar, technology will be critical for growing, storing, distributing and marketing a safe supply of food for the world.

We should neither lose confidence in our ability to influence events, nor downsize our global activities. An unstable world should cause us to redouble positive efforts to support humanitarian interests and American values abroad.