One of the principles of journalism is you don't lie. You never lie.

All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert at night.

The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.

We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur

The way you get leaders to care about issues of conscience is to apply political pressure. It's less a question of persuading leaders directly and more trying to build a social movement that holds their feet to the fire.

If you just try to make rational arguments about why people should care about Congo and how 5 million people have died, then people tend not to be receptive. But once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role.

There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted