You can't sit on the sidelines and read your iPhone and be on social media and expect everything to be cool. You have to be part of this.

Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work.

People are consuming the news that is comfortable for them, not necessarily the news that is real or that they need to know.

We are safer if there are not nuclear arsenals around the planet that can be utilized, stolen, sold to terrorists and others who would do harm.

We can't let others judge information for us.

I've been very lucky to have had a supportive family, a great education, enormous opportunity and challenge.

Syria is a civil war. Syria began as a popular uprising, just like the other experiences in the Arab Spring, with a repressive government that responded by basically killing the protesters. It's not a genocide, it's a war, and there's a difference. Genocide is a preplanned attack on people because of who they are. This is a interstate conflict.