The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.

Going after ISIS, it's beautiful, I like it.

Set your sights beyond what you can see. There is true majesty in the concept of an unseen power which can neither be measured nor weighed.

There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common

To face despair and not give in to it, that's courage.

My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.

I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.