Status Updates From The Politics of Hope: The W...

A Way Forward in Iraq: Remarks to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, 2006: "... we should be clear that the institutions of democracy - free markets, a free press, a strong civil society - cannot be built overnight, and they cannot be built at the end of a barrel of a gun."

RFK 80th birthday address, 2005: "It's time for us to meet the whys of today with the why-nots we often quote but rarely live - to answer 'Why hunger?' and 'Why homeless?', 'Why violence?' and 'Why despair?' with 'Why not good jobs and living wages?', 'Why not better health care and world class schools?', 'Why not a country where we make possible the potential that exists in every human being?'"