This country was founded by religious nuts with guns.

El Salvador has the scenery of northern California and the climate of southern California plus - and this was a relief - no Californians.

I spent almost 25 years as a foreign correspondent, and the world's primary problem is poverty.

In the end we beat them with Levi's 501 jeans. Seventy-two years of communist indoctrination and propaganda was drowned out by a three-ounce Sony Walkman. A huge totalitarian system...has been brought to its knees because nobody wants to wear Bulgarian shoes. Now they're lunch, and we're number one on the planet.

You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.

I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser.

You'll note that politicians no longer spend money, they invest it. Don't worry about paying more to the [IRS]. You aren't being taxed; you're taking a plunge on a fly-by-night stock issue.