Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country's elites.

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.

My favorite things in life are my children. If somebody wants to understand me, there's no better window into that than my children.

The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.

I think about Syria when I go to bed at night.

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.