We cannot do everything in Africa, but doing nothing is not an option.

For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.

One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.

A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.

Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.

Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them.

Protecting Americans from nuclear terrorism rises above politics.