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.

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

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

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.

You are living to the fullest when you live to discover and fulfill your purpose

Our minds tend to race ahead into the future or replay the past, but our bodies are always in the present moment.

...the real absurdity is that to love is to suffer, but the reverse isn't always true...

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there's a seed that with the sun's love in the spring becomes a rose.

Reliable data on the outsourcing of American jobs is sorely missing from the debate on globalization.

The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.

In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.

Some people are like blue jeans- the older and more beat up they get, the better they look.

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.