And I really believe good journalism is good business.

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.

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

I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.

We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.

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.

Because I am foreign I was assigned to the foreign desk. I kid you not, its true.