Life is too short to drink the house wine.

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.

I love my work, and I think that I was so lucky to pick a profession where it's a joy to go to work every day.

I'm of Arab background.

I can remember the morning after President Nixon won re-election in 1972. His chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, called a Cabinet meeting and told the members: 'You are all a bunch of burned-out volcanoes;' and asked for their resignations.

You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun.

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.