One of the challenges, I think, is that Americans are not sufficiently vested in foreign policy.

When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins.

We have a very large military community - veterans and others - who basically do believe in the militarism.

I do know that there are down-ballot people who have run on the Green Party, and some have been successful.

The Task Force didn't produce any earth-shattering findings but it suggests that this matter is on the president's radar screen.

I don't know how many off the record conversations I've had with African-American leaders who would not be quoted and refused to make their sentiments public.

Obviously these conditions [violence, poverty] predate the [Barack] Obama presidency and the president has limited ways to dent this violence. But funding war weapons in cities, as opposed to more community policing, is not the solution.