I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.

I'm a foot soldier in the war on Christmas. And the war on puppies and sunshine.

I guess what I'm looking for here is empathy. So you [Nicholas Kristof] have traveled all around the world, famously to the worse places of the world. Darfur. Mogadishu, Ouagadougou. Probably those places much more than Modesto or Lewiston.I never read a column by you that suggest the people in those places, who support dictators oftentimes, are racists or bad people. You would never write that about a poor person in the third world but you are implying that about your fellow Americans.

I don't think that [thew are bigots] of [Donald Trump] supporters. Those supporters are from my hometown - I understand that suffering. I have written about it repeatedly from my hometown.

Canada, by others in the global family, is, for some reason, taken seriously. They have about 30 million people. They have some natural resources.

Nobody, at least sitting in my seat , is defending drunk driving. I am not for drunk driving.

England, Australia, Israel, a few staunch, important allies internationally. But we have lost a lot of international support.