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

Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring in substantial sums that could be used to pay for schools, libraries or early childhood education.

Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.

All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert at night.

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

Solar power is one of the most hopeful technologies but still produces about 0.01 percent of U.S. electricity. The U.S. allocates just $159 million for solar research per year - about what we spend in Iraq every nine hours.

There are ten times as many sex slaves transported around the globe today as agrarian slaves were transported in the 1790s.