If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.

'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.

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

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.

The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.

We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.

I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.