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

Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.

What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.

Success is not about who never fails. It is about who can spring - or even stagger - back up.

Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.

Without investing in the rule of law for the poor, none of the other investments we make will be sustainable.

It is easy to get used to the morning news, habituated. But don't. The morning news is yours to alter.

My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

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.

Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.

I said alone!”He nodded in agreement. “Aye, you usually say that, and I still stay. It’s our way.

In our society, unless something can be measured then it doesn't exist. This is especially true in the world of medicine.

You cannot have a relationship with someone you can't trust.

I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again. I'm an Alan Simpson Republican.

My view is that you never argue with the customer about your name.

We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.

Women are like canoes, full of soup. At first everyone is suspicious but then everyone wants one.

The biggest benefit of doing an interview podcast is the relationships you build.

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.

Children are entitled to life. We conceive them and so we owe them our care and our protection. This may not be a dictate of law anymore, but it is a dictate of love.