According to the National Priorities Project, military expenditures are 54% of the budget. The next biggest line item is 7%. And there are a whole bunch of 7 percents. So in short, we have a military budget surrounded by a lot of footnotes. This is not serving us well.

[I like] Victor Jara and the music of Chile, and the social movement in Chile.

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.

We are plunging headlong into a cold war, and we have 2,000 nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert.

Right now we also have this epidemic of obesity and diabetes.

We have not been successful in deterring the growth or expansion of any terrorist group that we've been fighting.

We need to really use the full force of diplomacy. And we need to be seen and understood to be on the side of diplomacy and international law.