The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions-and Iraq may be one of them-when war is the only real remedy for regimes that live by terror.

If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back.

Scar Tissue is the only book Ive ever written when Ive felt completely toxic, ill.

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?

Mr. Kaplan is the first traveler to take us on a journey to the jagged places where these tectonic plates meet, and his argument--that our future is being shaped far away 'at the ends of the earth'--makes his travelogue pertinent and compelling reading.

The politics of personal destruction, the politics of division, the politics of fear, it's all there. It helps you to define the politics of moderation - the politics of democratic respect, the politics of hope - more clearly.