The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

Politics is not about power.

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.

As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.

I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.