As a journalist, I've felt as if it's a privilege that people share their stories and want you to be the messenger.... Even in my current job, when I go abroad, I'm racing to get back to the president and the secretary to share what I've seen.

I think that the only time we will really know what then-President Trump is going to do about the set of challenges that confront him is after he has sat down with his advisers as the commander in chief, when he's looking at the threats and the intelligence from the standpoint of being the number one decider, when he's hearing from his secretary of defense, his chairman, who was the same chairman President Obama had, Chairman Joe Dunford, who is an outstanding public servant, who has led our anti-ISIL effort, on which we're making great progress.

First, recognize the mistake. The main thing is taking responsibility and being authentic.

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.

Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.

'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.

American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.