My hope is the Trump administration will approach Russia strategically, with a clear purpose of trying to find more common ground, but without giving up on fundamental values and principles that are at the core of the United States' foreign policy.

I'm going to be honest with you - I don't know a lot about Cuba's healthcare system. Is it a government-run system?

Being lectured by the president on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country.

In this remarkable time for the world, I refuse to believe it's time to stop believing in the possibilities of our remarkable country. I refuse to accept the downsizing of the American Dream. I refuse to bet against American entrepreneurial spirit and American ingenuity.The competition's tough, and it requires us to be tougher - tough-minded, never hard hearted.

When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.

I know something about killing. I don't like killing. And I don't think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning killing.

For those of us who are fortunate to share an Irish ancestry, we take great pride in the contributions that Irish-Americans.