No black or white America-just United States of America.

It could be another election where the alignments between Republicans and Democrats are different than they were this time and who a foreign country prefers.

We may disagree about gay marriage, but surely we can agree that it is unconscionable to target gays and lesbians for who they are - whether it's here in the United States or, as Hillary (Clinton) mentioned, more extremely in odious laws that are being proposed most recently in Uganda.

You know, there are certain things that make for good sound bites but don't always translate into good policy.

Just listen to what Mr. [Donald] Trump has to say and make your own judgment with respect to how confident you feel about his ability to manage things like our nuclear triad.

You always hear about waste and abuse in Washington. And usually it doesn't mean much, because nobody ever finds where that waste and abuse is.

So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed