I dont look for good-news stories or bad-news stories.

Fences and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them.

Were all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.

I think war should be illegal.

A lot of Iran's empowerment is a result of the war in Iraq.

Putting a bomb in a dumpster or putting it with a timer by a race, it is not the kind of - similar to the attacks that we've seen where people open fire with assault rifles and things like that.

Every child is taught if you try to please everyone, you end up upsetting everyone.

Trouble seemed to follow me around. The late Tim Russert, my friend and the esteemed moderator of NBC’s Meet the Press, once joked, “Richard, just don’t come to Washington.

I could scarcely believe that my new home was engulfed by war before I even had time to find an apartment. It seemed that war followed me everywhere I went.

Foreigners who speak Arabic in the Middle East are often assumed to be working for the C.I.A. or Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad.

Kidnapping is always a threat in this life of reporting on men hurting one another because of religion and politics.

Her lips were burning with the lies she spoke and yet, he longed to kiss the fire.

Sometimes life hits with a brick in the head, don't lose hope.

She laughed - a bit louder than I could have wished in my frail state of health, but then she is always a woman who tends to bring plaster falling from the ceiling when amused.

The question was not how to get a job, but how to live by such jobs as I could get.

You know that it never has been easy Whether you do or do not resign Whether you travel the breadth of the extremities Or stick to some straighter line.

As long as I've got one chance to beat you I'm going to take it.

Once the Choice is Made, Do Not Look Back, Do Not Second-Guess Your Decisions

If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em.

I got a lot of paradoxes in my life. I guess I'm a real confused person, but there are some focused parts to my life now, and I'm slowly trying to put all the pieces back together.

The signals we give-yes or no, or maybe-/should be clear/the darkness around us is deep.