People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.

We did exactly what everybody in the country did, watching it. You entered this state of sort of denials. You think, well, it must have been a tragic accident by an amateur pilot. And then you see the next plane coming.

Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.

My dad, I still think, had the most beautiful, simple checklist for what you should do in life: Do something you really love that you would do it anyway. Do it in the most adventurous place you can do it. And make sure that it helps other people. And if you feel there's a genuine need for it, and that through that need you can help other people, you're home.

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.

An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day.