Im not an American but I have always had the outsiders respect for the American people and the American way.

What Americans don't care much about is the piffle we put on TV these days, what they don't care about is boring, irrelevant, badly told stories, and what they really hate is the presumption that they're too stupid to know the difference.

They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.

U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next.

If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.

And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story.

I believe America will always win the war. It's a superpower that no one can challenge. The real challenge is for the United States to win the peace.