Throughout the Middle East, there is a great yearning for the quiet miracle of a normal life.

The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow.

Almost makes you want to go to jail out here, doesn't it?

We have to change the whole job structure of America. We have got to basically reorient our economy toward the future.

Saddam Hussein didn't kill 3,100 people on Sept. 11. Osama bin Laden did, and as far as we know he's still alive.

A significant number of petroleum geologists believe that we will reach the global maximum of petroleum extraction within this decade or that we have already reached it. Peak Oil happened in 1970 in America, when over half of our oil that we gained from the soil was exhausted ... This is very disturbing, regardless of global warming.

If you want to know where I come by the passionate commitment I have to bringing people together without regard to race, it all started with my grandfather.