We exercise great caution in airing an audio- or videotape released by a terrorist organization holding a hostage. These are decisions made by CNN's editorial staff and not by any third party.

During the war, in which several of our embedded correspondents were able to report from moving vehicles crossing the Iraqi desert, the use of technology made news gathering safer.

Technology has saved us money in some circumstances, but it has really afforded us the ability to cover stories from locations we might not have been able to in the past.

I believe our editorial decisions reflected our constant desire to make sure that we fully cover and analyze any issue and give our viewers all the information they need.

There is critical mass with high-speed Internet connections, so video is a good user experience. And that means there can be critical mass for advertisers.

Since I arrived at CNN, it has grown into one of the largest and most trusted news organizations in the world.

CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas.

CNN can still afford 36 bureaus around the world.

Power is the ability not to have to please

There comes a time in every Salome's life when she should no longer be dropping the last veil.

The roller coaster came to a stop and a good friend got off, but what a ride we'd taken together. It had been one hell of a trip.

I should think a poet president would be able to create a delectable confluence of various spaces. A poet is most political.

When the moment comes, will you take your chance to be a hero?

The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.

Why should the lamp or the house be an art object but not our life?

Satsang is the invitation to step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you, it will burn only what you are not.

When you're in a relationship with someone you have to be in control of that relationship and you have to be as open as you can about everything, straight up, out the gate.

We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years.