Let me be clear: I'm a believer in a robust military, which is essential for backing up diplomacy. But the implication is that we need a balanced tool chest of diplomatic and military tools alike. Instead, we have a billionaire military and a pauper diplomacy. The U.S. military now has more people in its marching bands than the State Department has in its foreign service - and that's preposterous.

I said that one can't stereotype [Donald] Trump voters anymore than they can anybody else.

Guilt-tripping people does not work; they tend to be turned off.

A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.

It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none.

In the long struggle against sex trafficking, we finally have a breakthrough!

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