The fact is, most journalists I know are not particularly political. They move around a lot.

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

All of the leading terrorism experts are clear on one thing: that in terms of protecting America, we are almost never going to know a place or a time of an attack.

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.

You try to hold on to some notions you might have had before, that this will somehow work out, this is a spell that will lift or be broken.

Every person has their pantheon - the Bible, Hollywood, Shakespeare - their way of understanding the world.