I was really intrigued by how - sort of the common themes and sort of the blend among music, and that was sort of my real interest was, at one point, musically, was how you could weave those different kinds of songs and traditions together.

By needlessly provoking him [Vladimir Putin] and humiliating him, we empower far worse possibilities in Russia.

They [Democrats] are not just going up, they are accelerating on their way up.

There is no such thing as a survivable or local nuclear war.

Democracy cannot function just on who do we fear the most, you know, or who do we hate the most; we need an affirmative agenda.

The Keystone pipeline will spew a massive amount of carbon pollution into our fragile atmosphere. It should be stopped.

We also call for a freeze on the bank accounts of those countries, including our allies, with due warning.