There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation, but - to put it mildly - the world is a mess.

What you have to be concerned about are the extremists. On the whole, we need to understand the more moderate Muslims before they become more radicalized.

I can't see democracy occurring by force - after an Iraqi war, because of the fallout from that.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

A great task has been completed and an even larger one remains.

Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.

I got married three days after graduation, and the first thing I did what I was expected to do which was to work on a small newspaper. So we were in Chicago where my husband worked for the Chicago Sun-Times and we were having dinner with his editor and he said 'So what are you 'gonna do honey?' and I said 'I'm going to work on a newspaper', and he said 'I don't think so", because Newspaper Guild regulations said that I couldn't work on the same newspaper as my husband.