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.

It's going to have to come to a point where politicians in their own political self-interest think it's safe and advantageous to come out on the side of drug law reform. Right now, they don't care about drug safety. They just care about their standing with the electorate.

I have used cannabis all over the world.

A society has to make a choice: tolerate alternative lifestyles or build more prisons.

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

There's a huge difference between the more progressive and more regressive parts of America. That's just the way it is.

I would like travelers, especially American travelers, to travel in a way that broadens their perspective.