I have a deep-seated skepticism about the morality of violence. Violence is almost always morally corrosive.

A woman I loved [Andi Parhamovich] was killed in Baghdad in January 2007 – al-Qaeda in Iraq took credit for it … The memorial service with me crying over an empty coffin.

General McChrystal wanted to be on the cover of Rolling Stone.

I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation.

I think when war becomes your life, I think its very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.

Look, I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.

When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence.

If the thumbnail version of the Iraq war was that Bush lied about WMD, the thumbnail version of Obama's war in Afghanistan is that the generals pushed him into a war he didn't want to fight.

The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress.

By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained.

Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory.

Climbing trees is still one of my favorite things to do. A tree and a good book and I'm happy.

I don't really chase trends and fads because they are fleeting.

Continue your quest by taking the test. Yes, but what test? What test was I supposed to take? The Kobayashi Maru? The Pepsi Challenge? Could the clue have been any more vague?

We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible

People are sheep. TV is the shepherd.

Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history.

To speak ill of a good person is not truly good, all in all.

When you can't figure out what to do, it's time for a nap.

Everybody plays their part in this world and not all parts are the same. So I look at it like whatever I was put here to do that's what the outcome is.

I am not good at aligning myself with any movement that comes along but also I don't like the thought of sitting back and doing nothing.