Hopefully as a country, that we learn from our mistakes of the past.

I have to say that it's very few countries that are willing to look back at its past and apologize for its act, or make amends for its act, as the United States had one.

These are challenging times for all Americans. We face the specter of war abroad and a steady stream of bad economic news at home.

I was never given a trial. I never went before any magistrate, nor did my parents. To this day, I do not know what the charges that were lodged against me or my deceased parents at this time.

In the trunk of her car, my mother used to keep a collapsible easel, a clutch of brushes, a little wooden case stocked with tubes of paint, and, tucked into the spare-tire well, one of my father's old, tobacco-stained shirts, for a smock.

There's no way you should try to send somebody back who came here as a child with their parents and who's grown up here in the United States. They're Americans.

I went through pain as a child so my children wouldn't have to.

An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.