I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.

Donald Trump's negative enough, I don't need to add to that.

We need to be more precise in how we talk about these issues. People around the word follow our presidential campaigns so closely, trying to get hints about what we will do.

We've got to reach out to Muslim countries.We've got to have them be part of our coalition. If they hear people running for president who basically shortcut it to say we are somehow against Islam, that was one of the real contributions, despite all the other problems, that George W. Bush made after 9/11 when he basically said after going to a Mosque in Washington, we are not at war with Islam or Muslims.

Yet again, the family of a young black man is grieving a life cut short. Yet again, the streets of an American city are marred by violence. What we have seen in Baltimore should, indeed I think does, tear at our soul.

You can bloom wherever you're planted, if you put enough effort into it.

I want very much to save what works and is good about the Affordable Care Act.