Tom Clancy

Ebola is a nasty disease to get. It's scary. But as a weapon, it is probably not likely. Ebola is a difficult malady to weaponize and deliver efficiently.

Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, Oh, you can't do that.

Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

I generally don't follow domestic news that much aside from how it relates to the stories I'm covering abroad, like what Americans think of the War in Afghanistan.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.