I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest.

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

The decision in Citizens United said that money equals speech, a position that I - and a vast majority of Americans, in poll after poll - could not disagree with more.

It's possible to make things that aren't just money-makers. Something wonderful for its own sake.

I have always been very entrepreneurial minded. Oftentimes, while I was sitting in class listening to my professor ramble on, I would think to myself: 'I could be out there making money right now.'

To be a good reporter, writing about war, you have to write about the people. It's not about the tanks or the RPGs or military strategy. It's always about the effect war has on civilians, on society, and how it disrupts and destroys lives.