My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.

I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened.

There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research.

When you lose your job, the unemployment rate isn't four percent, it's 100 percent.

There is a connection between energy, climate, food and political stability. That has played out in the Arab awakening and is not done playing out.

Some would ask which country am I from? We are supposed to tell the truth, [so] we tell them India. Some thought it was Indiana, not India! Some did not know where India is. I said it is the country next to Pakistan.

Big breakthroughs happen when what is suddenly possible meets what is desperately needed