Silence In The Face Of

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.

I Joke That I Spent 38 Years Scouring The Globe, Going To War Zones, Trying To Find The Person With My Exact Birthday.

In General, My Rule Is Find Out Where Your Heart Is, Then Speak From The Heart. People Know The Difference Between That And Something Scripted.

You Could Be In The United Nations Office All Night Every Night And Still Feel Like You Were Not Making A Sufficient Dent In The World's Problems. I Think The Key Is Prioritization. But Every Job Presents The Tyranny Of The Inbox, Of Allowing The Urgent To Crowd Out The Important. So We Have To Have Our Lodestars.

President Reagan, Of Course, Did More Than Any Other Person To Entrench The Republican Reputation For Toughness On National Security.