China was probably the worst place in the world to grow up female 100 years ago. There was foot binding, female infanticide, concubinage, and child marriage, and now it's one of the better places. So I really do feel that we're on the right side of history here.

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

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.

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible.

...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public.

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.

Write letters to your editors, write to your members of Congress, and write to your news stations.