Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives

You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.

The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.

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

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.

Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives

The way you get leaders to care about issues of conscience is to apply political pressure. It's less a question of persuading leaders directly and more trying to build a social movement that holds their feet to the fire.