Since 9/11, There Has Been A Huge

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.

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

We Know That Often Holding Those Who Have Carried Out Mass Atrocities Accountable Is At Times Our Best Tool To Prevent Future Atrocities.

I Tell Young People: If You Make A Job Choice On The Basis Of Something Other Than Your Nose Or Your Gut, It's Unlikely To Work Out.... It's Perilous To Look Ahead And Be Like, "i'd Like To Be Ambassador." I Would Never Have Gone To Bosnia Or Spent Years Writing About Genocide. Do It On The Basis Of What You Can Learn.... It's Like Falling In Love. Your Whole Dating Life, You're Thinking, On The One Hand, On The Other Hand. Then You Meet The Right Guy, And You're Not In List-making Mode; You're Just With The Person You're Supposed To Be With. Jobs Are Like That Too.

Re-examining Our Reasoning Is Not Something That Has Come Naturally To American Statesmen.