Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity.

My experience has confirmed the wisdom of so much of what the Bible teaches.

People are starving for that coming out of Washington. And it's not a Democrat thing or a Republican thing. I think it's a politician thing.

Military action is never the first thing that you jump to. You always look at other possibilities, including economic sanctions, tightening the screws.

Our country since its inception has been at war, every 15 or 20 years. But the war that we are fighting against radical Islamist jihadists is one that we must win. Our very existence is dependent upon that.

'Why risk?' I responded. 'It should be, why not to risk?'

I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.