I think Michael O'Donoghue felt he'd said what he wanted to say. In fact, nobody thought we could spin it out long enough to make a book.

Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is.

One thing talk can't accomplish is communication. This is because everybody's talking too much to pay attention to what anyone is saying

With the war in Iraq, I had the cooperation of the Department of Defense. Kuwait was pretty eager to get American journalists in there, to show us what a wonderful place they are, and what great allies they are to America, even though they didn't actually fight in the war.

There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.

It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government to give them things.

Any random group of thirty Vietnamese women will contain a dozen who make Julia Roberts look like Lyle Lovett.