"For every African state, like Ghana, where democratic institutions seem secure, there is a Mali, a Cote d'Ivoire, and a Zimbabwe, where democracy is in trouble."

"How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?"

"What makes the United Nations an appropriate source of legitimacy for intervention is that it is the only place where the claims of the strong are put through the test of justification in front of the weak."

"Communism may be over as an economic system, but as a model of state domination, it is very much alive in the People's Republic of China and in Putin's police state."

"Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory even more are false, and most are uncertain."

"While we dance in the streets and pat ourselves on the back for being a nation great enough to reach beyond racial divides to elect our first African-American president, let us not forget that we remain a nation still proudly practicing prejudice."

"I want to produce a country album for a country singer."

"When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise."