Life is a horror for the Korean people. And I think isolating them further is going to make life more miserable.

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.

I was able to do something that people cant do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job.

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.

We've had the trivialization of our politics going on ever since we had electronic media.

I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.

The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.