No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.

There is a convergence of crises that makes it challenging to keep the world's attention.

Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.

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

Without investing in the rule of law for the poor, none of the other investments we make will be sustainable.

'Acting as if...' I decided, ridiculously in retrospect, that my experience covering women's volleyball for my college newspaper was sufficient for me to at least try to become a war correspondent.

My favorite things in life are my children. If somebody wants to understand me, there's no better window into that than my children.