When I Wake Up In The Morning,

'acting As If...' I Decided, Ridiculously In Retrospect, That My Experience Covering Women's Volleyball For My College Newspaper Was Sufficient For Me To At Least Try To Become A War Correspondent.

I Got Into Journalism Not To Be A Journalist But To Try To Change American Foreign Policy. I'm A Corny Person. I Was A Dreamer Predating My Journalistic Life, So I Got Into Journalism As A Means To Try To Change The World.

Democracies Are Expense-averse And They Think In Terms Of Short-term, Political Interests Rather Than A Long-term Interest In Stability.

My Second Epiphany Came As An Intern At The Carnegie Endowment For International Peace. The Man I Worked For Was Consumed With What Was Going On In Bosnia. And The More I Knew [about It] The More Saddened I Was. There Were These Images Of Emaciated Men Behind Barbed Wire.... It Was Like, I've Got To Find A Way To Do Something.

One Of The Things That A President Needs In The Face Of Genocide Is Resolve.