It's the fact that you can reduce my whole life to one word, whatever it is, my entire career, my service to my country, my academic rigor, my courage in going to interview terrorists, and refugee camps, and third-world prisons.

I think Ivanka Trump she has this power and powerful women are reaching out to her and she needs to take advantage of that.

If I'm strong, I'm not going to apologize for being strong.

The story is framed around [avid Petraeus] resignation. So many headlines that followed talked about his ruined career. They completely ignore the fact that my career was ruined, other peoples' careers were ruined. They focus on him as the victim.

I'm really happy for [David Petraeus]. He's exceptionally talented.

The national media don't know me. They know the caricature that was created of me by journalists who were frankly jealous of my access. And it was a very negative caricature. There's this propensity for blaming a woman. It comes down to implicit bias. There are so many studies that show this.

I don't have the advocates. I don't have a good old boys network. Part of what I want to do is to create a good old girls network.