Separation of powers is a problem for foreign policy.

I really wish that we had passed a comprehensive immigration bill because that would've really helped our country.

I was born in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. I didn't have a white classmate till we moved to Denver.

Once a month I play with a chamber music quartet. I play almost no solo music anymore because I so enjoy the interaction. The members of my quartet have become some of my best friends and so I really enjoy it now in ways that I didn't before.

Search for role models you can look up to and people who take an interest in your career. But here's an important warning: you don't have to have mentors who look like you. Had I been waiting for a black, female Soviet specialist mentor, I would still be waiting. Most of my mentors have been old white men, because they were the ones who dominated my field.

Diplomacy, if properly practiced, is not just talking for the sake of talking.

Does anybody think these people were just sitting around drinking tea?