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

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.

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.

American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.

My heart drips into the cracks on the sidewalk as he leaves.

In life we always have some measure of control whether it be over our emotions or choices, but when it comes to cancer? The only thing you can control is how you respond to it

Hell-on-skis, can you hear me? This is flying cupcake.

The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.

I always thought I was really thick.

I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that.

We are but the instruments or assistants, by whom God works.

For every problem, there exists a solution...and at the very least...an opportunity.

What makes the Gospel offensive isn’t who it keeps out, but who it lets in.

Everything I chose, I had already played in concert. For the competition, I wanted to pick pieces I know that people like.