I think that people don't realize that the sky will not fall when we legalize marijuana. My contention all along has been use will not go up when it's legalized. We'll just take the crime out of it. It's already a huge black market economy.

Even in challenging economic times, making sure that study abroad is part of our college students' education is a vital investment. If we want a new generation of leaders and innovators who can be effective in an ever more globalized world, sending our students overseas is not a luxury. It's a necessity.

I think it will be pretty hard to deny the fact that prohibition of marijuana is on its way out.

Travel is intensified living … and one of the last great sources of legal adventure.

If you don't like a place, maybe you don't know enough about it... Give a culture the benefit of your open mind.

It's just in Washington we're talking about equal rights for gay people, civil liberty to smoke marijuana, taking care of the environment, and it's all just decency and common sense and patriotism. And in other parts of the country that would be, like, inconceivable.

I shutter to think how many people are underexposed and lacking depth in this field.