I don't know if a country where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call that a free world.

In my mind it takes a special kind of courage to risk your life in another country, for your own country. The men and women who came back and spoke out were a special kind of hero.

It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.

The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.

Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way.

The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.