We needed someone to recognize the importance of check and balances, accountability, transparency. There was a real systemic problem at South Carolina State, a problem that has gone on for 25 or 30 years

One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.

This is what happens with a breakthrough. The first ones through the door often get bruised if not broken. Eventually, with a little political acumen and racial sensitivity and a lot of hard work, a smooth new place can emerge.

I'm not quite certain how you can force a candidate to stick by the rules.

No parent should be denied from their Scouting - their son's Scouting experience simply because those parents happen to be gay.

I think I'm careful. My goal is to try to stay away as much from opinion journalism as possible.

I just think we as consumers of information media must be very clear what it is we are consuming. Whether we are choosing to get our information by listening to people fight about it. Or whether we're choosing to get it by listening to the facts or watching the facts as they're laid out and then reaching our own conclusions. It's very different ways of info gathering, but it's not all journalism.