I joke that I spent 38 years scouring the globe, going to war zones, trying to find the person with my exact birthday.

I was interning in the CBS sports affiliate in Atlanta with Robin Roberts.... I was taking notes on a Braves-Padres game, and on the live feed came footage of these kids protesting and getting crushed during the Tiananmen Square uprising in China in 1989. In that moment I became like a lot of young people in this country today, horrified and inspired but confused as to what I might do.

The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen.

In general, my rule is find out where your heart is, then speak from the heart. People know the difference between that and something scripted.

Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.

Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.

I think about Syria when I go to bed at night.