I'm addicted to when people are bringing you around their country, telling you their stories. They become so enthusiastic, so passionate.

American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds.

If you look not just at the Arab spring, but at what I call the youth spring that has started in Europe, young people are starting to find a voice, and they are not looking to the traditional media to reflect that.

Omaha is a game that was invented by a sadist and is played by masochists.

I'm sure everybody looked at me cockeyed. But if you don't believe it, then it's not going to happen. If you don't believe it, no one else is going to believe it. But if you believe it and keep saying it, then slowly one person will believe you, then two, then three, then four . . .

I don't care if I die - look, I'm old - but you want your kids to have good times and a good life.

If you're coming from America to Iraq, then how are you supposed to be objective? I mean, you could pay lip service to being objective, but how are you going to objective when you're embedded with the Marines? The Marines are saving your life every day and they're protecting you.