In black America there's such a thing as passing, the black people who are light skinned and they will pass for white.

There's a difference between using the word to insult somebody and using it to start a journalistic conversation.

My wife and I, Delice and I, are empty nesters.

I think the president's [Barack Obama] position has been very clear on Syria. He wants more aggressive, he's put the Special Ops on the ground, in fact one of the Republican criticisms is he's got thousands of Americans there. We just don't call them troops on the ground, we don't admit to it. But they are there.

Beyond budget fights, the Obama second-term agenda was supposed to be about passing comprehensive immigration reform.

You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict

In black America there's such a thing as passing, the black people who are light skinned and they will pass for white.