The worst terrorist crimes going on right now are the drone campaigns.

It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence

I grew up in that, when I was a kid. My friends and I used to play cowboys and Indians. We were cowboys killing the Indians, following the Wild West stories. All of this combined into a very strange culture, which is frightened.

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.

Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the '90s.