I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent.

People are interested if you tell stories well and relevantly.

I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent.

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.

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.

Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people.