Our national leaders tend to try to protect the national interest as they see it. They may screw up in that, but they at least see that as their role. In contrast, where issues of our national values are involved, which covers pretty much any humanitarian issue, they pretty much drop the ball.

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

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

We tie ourselves in knots when we act as if democracy is good for the United States and Israel but not for the Arab world. For far too long, we've treated the Arab world as just an oil field.

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.

In much of the world, the most dangerous thing a woman can do is become pregnant.

The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month