It wasn't until about a year, year and a half in where I began to realize that the Pentagon and our national-security apparatus and the CIA were all getting too comfortable with the technology as a tool to fight terrorism, and not being mindful enough about how that technology is being used and the dangers of a form of warfare that is so detached from what is actually happening on the ground. And so we initiated this big process to try to get it in a box.

Race remains a potent and often divisive force in our society.

We don't really have any kind of regulatory structure at all.

To resolve this issue will require Iran to come to the table and discuss in a clear and forthright way how to prove to the international community that the intentions of their nuclear program are peaceful. [...] The question is going to be whether in these discussions they show themselves moving clearly in that direction.

I'm a warrior for the middle class.

I said in a forum on health care if the Republicans can come up with a system that insures more people cheaper, better I will be the first one.

There was a time when if you had a financial crisis in Southeast Asia somewhere, it had no impact on our markets. Today it does.