The photos were taken by African Union soldiers. People in Congress saw them. I thought if people could see them, there would be public outcry. No one would be able to say, We just didn't know what was going on there.

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.

More Americans die in gun homicides and suicides in six months than have died in the last 25 years in every terrorist attack and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined.

While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction

Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.

There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror.

Laws matter, but typically changing the law by itself accomplishes little.