But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.

Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing.

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.

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.

My view is that when lies become mixed up with the truth, it's a very dangerous world.

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

Mostly, as I said, a desire to do a bit of good, and the quaint notion that this is what we signed up for, this is the business that we have chosen.