Whether the borders that divide us are picket fences or national boundaries, we are all neighbors in a global community.

America has no functioning democracy at this moment.

Our values are not luxuries, but necessities. They are not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.

Under Lenin the Soviet Union was like a religious revival, under Stalin like a prison, under Khrushchev like a circus, and under Brezhnev like the U.S. Post Office.

Harry Truman was courageous enough to command that racial segregation be ended in the military. I was serving in a submarine in the U.S. Navy at the time he issued the order.

After all these years, I still feel like a boy when I'm on a stream

I believe men and women are the same and that women should be given an equal chance to serve God with men.