During the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the military conducted only a handful of drone missions.

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.

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.

A crisis creates the opportunity to dip deep into the reservoirs of our very being, to rise to levels of confidence, strength, and resolve that otherwise we didn't think we possessed.

A woman who's self confident doesn't need to compete with other females. She knows her worth and lives a purpose filled life.

Narrative is the beginning of recovery.

I'm not interested in fame at all.

Al Gore may think Medicare is at a crossroads, but his plan puts it on a highway to bankruptcy.

I spent most of my dough on booze, broads and boats and the rest I wasted.

People only say I’m angry because I’m black and I’m a woman.

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

We have everything we need, in fact, except the most important thing of all — time to think and the habit of thought.

You know, any sane magician would never reveal his method of deception. And I don't think that a sensible musician would either.