I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.

I myself am a Buddhist, not a Christian. But I cannot help but think that if Christ ran a public establishment, it would be open to all, and He would be the last to refuse service to anyone. It is, simply put, the most un-Christian of notions.

The large majority of faith-based people are decent, fair-minded people. We should not characterize people of faith as the adversaries of GLBT equality.

And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.

If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.

Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.