I joke that I spent 38 years scouring the globe, going to war zones, trying to find the person with my exact birthday.

Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.

If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.

I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.

We, as Americans, have an interest in ensuring that the only people who get to vote for our elected leaders are our citizens, and not some foreign people who think that they have an interest in skewing our election in one direction or another.

The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen.

When I wake up in the morning, I think about Syria.