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

Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.

In 2007 the 'dagger' of an idea that killed President Bush's effort at reforming the immigration system was lax border security.

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.

I don't think there's any shortage of tough, sometimes vicious rhetoric about President Barack Obama coming from the right. Talk radio shows dominated by conservatives.

I think that you have a situation where one political party, in specific, if you watched the Republican debate, it's all about terrorism.

The question now is does Obama have any hope of raising money? I don't think he'll raise it out of the New York people, I don't think he's going to raise it out the Hollywood people, so where's the money going to come from for Barack Obama?