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

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

Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win.

We turn now over the debate of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero....The controversy has raised profound questions about religious tolerance and prejudice in the United States.

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.

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

And I really believe good journalism is good business.