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

If you take the conflicts we are used to dealing with, race over the years in America, and you combine that with the desire or aspiration to political power or taking power from other people, which is what politics is all about, you end up with a lot more friction than you would normally see with just straight-ahead politics.

Barack Obama didn't get elected president, would never have been elected president, had he decided to run as a black candidate. In order to reach the broadest number of people you have to speak to their interests as broadly as you can.

I certainly don't think Donald Trump suggesting violence in any way.

Folks who are getting their strokes in the South are not as unhappy with Howard Dean. You don't see anybody starting any movement to get him out of office.

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

In the media universe we're in, where there are people screaming on one end, there is no problem at all with having a little bit of extra politeness.