Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries. Inevitably freedom will overwhelm Ethiopia.

All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.

As Ethiopia goes, so goes the whole Horn of Africa - a region where instability can have major security and humanitarian implications for the United States and Europe.

We live in an age of global expectations. Our hopes have converged in many ways, none more so than in our democratic aspirations.

Being in a wheelchair has made everyday things difficult. Things you wouldn't imagine. Like the looks I get at high school basketball games when they tell everyone to stand for the National Anthem.

Grief helps us to relinquish the illusion that the past could be different from what it was.

How did you know it was love?" "It never really hurt this much before.

My kids - even though it's a family business - they don't even know what day or time 'Survivor' is even on. They just know it's on TiVo.

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.

I don't know anyone my age.

There is a limit to how much you can cut but there is no limit to how much you can earn.

A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.

I don't want to have the threat of the sky falling on my head or some idiot pushing some button that sets off World War Three.