From a philosophical perspective, I want to fight off isolationism and protectionism, be it part of another voice out there that says, wait a minute, what matters to women in Afghanistan matters to America. An isolationist point of view says it doesn't matter. The articulation of "all life matters" helps frame the case that it does matter what happens to a woman in Afghanistan.

The United States and rich countries cannot change Africa from within. It has to impose reform on Africa; it has to come from within.

We will not permit the triumph of violence in the affairs of men; free people will set the course of history.

•“I don’t have the foggiest idea about what I think about international, foreign policy.”

I regret that a private comment I made to the vice presidential candidate made it through the public airways.

I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children.

So many people commute in this country by car long enough distances to really cut into their income, their real income, that they would change their vote based on gas prices.