Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.

I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status.

Reaching out to any fellow ghetto kids is an act he puts in the same category as doing drugs: the initial rush of warmth and euphoria puts you on a path to ruin.

Al-Qaeda has a kind of loose, almost entrepreneurial structure with lots of cells in various countries that are semi-independent.

Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering.

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

I think that [Barack Obama] does say something that's - that is telling on that score, when he talks about the [George W.] Bush tax cuts and the swap he makes after the midterm elections, which is he doesn't agree with the Bush tax cuts.