There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of racial antagonism and of support for symbols of the struggle to keep African-Americans in bondage.

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don't tap people's phones and poke into their e-mail and you don't arrest people and keep them hidden for a year and a half without charging them.

New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party.

I think its time to get a reapportionment process that frankly takes out the incumbency protection and the raw politics of the process.

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

There are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, just permanent interests.