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

And I really believe good journalism is good business.

And then theres always the crying and the weeping that we hear-children, women, even men. And these images and these sounds are always with me.

In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.

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.

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

There are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about, because when you are neutral you are an accomplice. Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing.