The amount and depth of the torture that's been alleged and corroborated leaves no doubt in my mind that what we saw was a staged interrogation,

There is no doubt in my mind, that if our security adviser had not returned fire, everyone in our vehicle would have been killed, ... This was not an attempted robbery, they were clearly trying to take us out.

shootouts at Easter egg hunts -- that's what it comes down to.

There is no reason to repeat bad history.

Affirmative action is the most important antidiscrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable effect on discrimination... Affirmative action, by all statistical measures, has been the central ingredient to the creation of the black middle class.

I agree that income disparity is the great issue of our time. It is even broader and more difficult than the civil rights issues of the 1960s. The '99 percent' is not just a slogan. The disparity in income has left the middle class with lowered, not rising, income, and the poor unable to reach the middle class.