I came to political consciousness with John F. Kennedy's magnificent 1961 Inaugural Address. It seemed the start of something fresh and exciting, and it was.

I think that if you make a strong statement of principle, even if the folks disagree with you, people will respect you for it.

Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.

We`re facing a very different sort of threat now, a more amorphous threat, al Qaeda, terrorism, and so on. And so the military has abandoned the two-war strategy.

I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.

I came to political consciousness with John F. Kennedy's magnificent 1961 Inaugural Address. It seemed the start of something fresh and exciting, and it was.