I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight

America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.

Individual storytelling is incredibly powerful. We as journalists know intuitively what scientists of the brain are discovering through brain scans, which is that emotional stories tend to open the portals, and that once there's a connection made, people are more open to rational arguments.

It's important not to demonize [Donald's] Trump voters.

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

There isn't a political price to be paid yet for doing nothing. People need to get upset with President Bush. People need to get upset with their Congressmen.