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In the meantime, it just makes it a little harder to smile. But so does the world.

Go to where the silence is and say something.

Whether you vote for me or you don't vote for me, I really want to be your greatest champion. And I will be your champion, whether you vote for me or not.

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated. Instead, what we see in the U.S. media is the video war game.

I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track