It's easy to keep issuing blame to Republicans or the president

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

The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.

Our national leaders tend to try to protect the national interest as they see it. They may screw up in that, but they at least see that as their role. In contrast, where issues of our national values are involved, which covers pretty much any humanitarian issue, they pretty much drop the ball.

It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.

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.

For most of history, genocide was just something governments did and nobody blinked.