I Have To Separate My Personal Concerns

Progress Is The Product Of Human Agency. Things Get Better Because We Make Them Better. Things Go Wrong When We Get Too Comfortable, When We Fail To Take Risks Or Seize Opportunities.

We Are Patriots In My Family, We Are Believers In America, We're Believers In Democracy.

Once You've Learned To Study In A Bathing Suit On The Grass With Muscled Men Throwing Frisbees Over Your Head, You Can Accomplish Almost Anything.

Syria Is A Civil War. Syria Began As A Popular Uprising, Just Like The Other Experiences In The Arab Spring, With A Repressive Government That Responded By Basically Killing The Protesters. It's Not A Genocide, It's A War, And There's A Difference. Genocide Is A Preplanned Attack On People Because Of Who They Are. This Is A Interstate Conflict.

When My Son Was A Mere Three Months Old, I Started Working At The State Department. I Was Not Only The Youngest Assistant Secretary Of State But I Was Also A Breastfeeding Mother. I'm The First To Admit That This Felt Crazy At Times, And The Balancing Act Is Never Ever Easy. But My Two Kids Are The Most Wonderful Things That Have Ever Happened To Me.