While the vandals are on the street corners, the Tea Party conservatives, they're working state houses, the governorships, the mayorships, the Senate, the House.

It's a philosophy that - 'We, the People' - it's about us, that if the Americans want to do something, they have the power to try to put leaders in place to carry out whatever their notions are.

I think we should all be proud that we are living in a country where we can question those we put in power because, at the end of the day, they work for every citizen.

The last place I'm ever going to live or work is D.C.

How many muni areas have actually defaulted, by the way? Just a question.

I think health care is a mess. I think that, as a free market person, you can't even have that discussion unless you know what the service costs.

Let me see the 'Cuban missiles on the island' picture. Trump needs to see it before networks need to see it.

There's hearings on everything. They're kabuki theater.

I don't think that there is a beer summit in the cards for me at the White House.

Kidnapping is always a threat in this life of reporting on men hurting one another because of religion and politics.

Many governments are quick to condemn Assad, but a dwindling number of them would celebrate a rebel victory in Damascus.

Assad's regime helped ISIS grow by attacking other opposition forces and rarely targeting ISIS.

The people of Gaza are trapped. Israel has sealed the border, and they have no way to leave the Gaza Strip to do business.

Osama bin Laden organized an attack that was carried out against the United States, New York, Pentagon, and the other aircraft, with 19 attackers, 19 guys with box cutters. An attack that probably cost almost nothing.

Some Iraqi troops aren't willing to fight for their government. But many Shiites appear willing to fight for their religious leaders.

Every country where the the United States maintains troops has a status of forces agreement.

We're all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.

The Muslim Prophet Mohammed was a big believer in charity and firmly established helping those in need as a basis of the religion.

Damascus was the seat of the Ummayad Caliphate in the 7th and 8th centuries.

Afghanistan was always a backwater in the Islamic world.

Under a decades-old agreement, Palestinian refugee camps are supposed to administer and police themselves. Lebanese troops are technically not allowed to enter them.

Shaped like Texas, but twice as big, Mali is one of the poorest countries in the world. It exports almost nothing - mostly just cotton, gold and livestock - and doesn't have enough money to import much of anything, either.

If Syria collapses completely, the United States and the world would have to consider who, and what, fills the vacuum.

Mali exists mostly to itself. Few people go there. Few Malians leave. Most of Mali's 13 million people live, and seem to live quite happily, off the rice, corn and millet they grow and the long-horn cattle and goats they keep.