Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.

The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.

It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.

It takes me about two and a half hours. The make-up takes the longest, it's so meticulous. And the wig and the microphone and the costumes and the body suits take forever to get 'cause they're so tight.

My family history, like that of many Polish, German and Jewish families from Central Europe in the 20th century, is complex.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.