"When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back."

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"When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back."

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"Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information."

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"In some ways the domestic reporting is a lot easier because Americans will talk to you about anything."

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"But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are willing to risk their lives to tell you what they saw, even though they have no dog in the fight."

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"I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China."

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"The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession."

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"And when they do spin out of control there are important ramifications that affect America, not just its direct national interest but its broader interests as a nation which has thought of itself as a beacon to other nations, of freedom, liberty, democracy, whatever."

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"I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the same time trying to connect the fact that there are a lot of shared values in addition to those differences."

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"A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life."

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"For me the much more significant question is what did the Americans do, if anything, to help the Croatian army, because they are the ones that changed fundamentally the map of Bosnia, not the Bosnian army."

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