Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches.

The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government.

It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them.

These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.

When you get people standing up saying, 'I'm going to just tell the truth; what do we have to fear?,' it encourages others, and it creates a counterresponse.

The informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere.

Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches.