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.

What we do and say and show really matters.

Objectivity means trying to give all sides a hearing. It does not, in my view, mean treating all sides as equal.

I strongly believe that journalism is one of the most noble professions, because without an informed world, and without an informed society, we are weak, we are weak.

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.

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.

I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.