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

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

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

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.

Until you realize who you are, you will not be able to start living the life you are intended to live

They say that a few minutes each day of petting your dog can raise your serotonin levels.

I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to believe me.

I got my first flash of titties from a Venezuelan hooker.

But also, it's a wonderful thing for children to see the birthing of puppies, to see nature at its best when it works and to have the experience of the puppies.

There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.

American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.

The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.

... you're nuts but you're welcome here.