I don't like the word transparency; cold dead glass is transparent. I prefer education or understanding, which are more human.

Which country is suffering from too much freedom of speech? Name it, is there one?

One of the hopeful things that I've discovered is that nearly every war that has started in the past 50 years has been a result of media lies. The media could've stopped it if they had searched deep enough; if they hadn't reprinted government propaganda they could've stopped it.

I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable.

The sense of perspective that interaction with multiple cultures gives you I find to be extremely valuable, because it allows you to see the structure of a country with greater clarity, and gives you a sense of mental independence.

I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and internet since that time.

Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.