Our globe is under new dramatic environmental pressure: our globe is warming, our ice caps melting, our glaciers receding, our coral is dying, our soils are eroding, our water tables falling, our fisheries are being depleted, our remaining rainforests shrinking. Something is very, very wrong with our eco-system.

To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.

Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.

The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture.

America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.

Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that.

I think we're rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals, hooked up to tubes and things, far beyond when any kind of quality of life is left at all.