I don't pretend to be objective. There is no such thing as being an objective journalist.

I believe that we [Americans] are making more new enemies than we are killing terrorists at this point, and I think it's time that we stepped back from this aggressive assertion that we can just go to any country and conduct lethal operations.

Because I didn't see war in Iraq through the partisan lens that seems to dominate a lot of the perspective today with Fox News on the one side and MSNBC on the other, I didn't see it as Democrats good, Republicans bad. I saw it as a situation where the United States is a force that engages in these military operations around the world, and it's the job of journalists to provide the American people with information they can use to make informed decisions.

For much of my life as a journalist, I've viewed myself as being embedded with civilians and with those people who live on the other side of the barrel of a gun.

If I were to read about me purely on Twitter, I wouldn’t know what to make of me.

I believe that one of the most important institutions in a democratic society is a free press.

You can do as much diligence as possible before you go somewhere to try to protect yourself and the people around you.