Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.

The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are for the United States the natural marts of supply and demand.

We are really just at the recognition phase (in the United States) ... We have defined the problem and are recognizing the problem and trying to adapt. This (study) just points out how far behind we are in even accepting bullying as something that's not a normative behavior.

The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military technology.

'Honor in the Dust' is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.

Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.