I think that for many of us, the years of the Civil Rights movements - Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy running for president in 1968 to end the war and so forth - these were defining moment in terms of trying to hold government accountable and have a level of responsibility and truth-telling.

So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real.

There should be a Transatlantic renaissance between the US and Europe based on shared prosperity, security, and values.

I figured out Karl Rove's political strategy -- make gas so expensive, no Democrats can afford to go to the polls.

President Clinton was often known as the first black president. I wouldn't be upset if I could earn the right to be the second.

George Bush sold us on going to war with Iraq based on the threat of weapons of mass destruction. But we still haven't found them.

We cannot continue to see the Middle East in the context of 9/11. We must see it in the context of 2011.