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

Photographs are still being taken but aren't being shown. There's one of a skeleton bound at the wrists with pants still around its ankles; if it was a woman, she was likely raped; if it was a man, he was possibly castrated.

In general, talking about human rights tends to be very persuasive for people who care about human rights.

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

One of the principles of journalism is you don't lie. You never lie.

The intelligence community is so vast that more people have top secret clearance than live in Washington. The U.S. will spend more on the war in Afghanistan this year, adjusting for inflation, than we spent on the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War and the Spanish-American War combined.

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