Look, fundamentally there are two sets of questions that apply in the war against terrorism. The one set of questions deals with the, "Where is it going to happen? What's going to happen? When is it going to happen?" The other set of questions deals with, "What is it that our enemy, the terrorists, are trying to achieve?" What are they trying to induce us to do?

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

President Carter famously said the hostages were the first thing he thought about in the morning and the last thing he thought about at night. It was a downright foolish thing to say, because it made the people holding the hostages realize that they had an awful lot of influence over the United States.

And there will continue to be a specific threat, and there will continue to be terrorism, as there has been for as long as human history exists.

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

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

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.