I think it's very important to follow the lead of the South Koreans and the Chinese and not back North Korea even further into a corner, because that's when they'll be dangerous.

I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.

Nuclear weapons are inherently threatening to all of civilization. If that had been a nuclear weapon at the World Trade Center, even the most primitive kind of the Hiroshima, Nagasaki, you wouldn't have a Manhattan. There wouldn't be a democracy of any kind in America.

It takes no courage to make war, particularly if you're not going to go and your children are not going to go.

Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money.

The great enemy of any totalitarian regime is normalization and trade.

We think the Republicans are the ones who started this fundamentalist religion claptrap, you know? It was Jimmy Carter. He's the one who talked about, you know, "I'm a born-again Christian. I pray all the time. I do this," etc.