Despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America's long struggle with race is far from finished.

I'm in charge of the State Department's 60,000-plus people all over the world, 275 posts.

I don't recognize this new brand of Republicanism that's afoot now, which I consider to be very reactionary, not conservative in many respects.

I feel like my political beliefs are rooted in the conservatism that I was raised with.

I believe in America, and I still do.

I respect the second amendment and the right of individuals to own firearms. But I think that we all agree that there are some people who should not be able just to walk in and buy weapons of war.

Not everyone can march, but everyone can talk. And everyone can reach out, and everyone can vote.