Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

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

One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.

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

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

Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.

I tell young people: If you make a job choice on the basis of something other than your nose or your gut, it's unlikely to work out.... It's perilous to look ahead and be like, "I'd like to be ambassador." I would never have gone to Bosnia or spent years writing about genocide. Do it on the basis of what you can learn.... It's like falling in love. Your whole dating life, you're thinking, On the one hand, on the other hand. Then you meet the right guy, and you're not in list-making mode; you're just with the person you're supposed to be with. Jobs are like that too.