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I've been to war, and I know the consequences and sacrifice it takes. If we must fight, we fight to win.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.

Most people, when they meet me, one of the first things they say is, 'Why would you voluntarily subject yourself to war? Why would you go into these places where you know there's a risk of getting killed?'

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.

The funny thing about war is that people feel you need to be morally outraged. I feel morally outraged about it, and I've been doing it for long enough to feel morally outraged, because I have been in massacre scenes in West Africa, and I've been doing this for a long time now.

My life isn't always at risk, even if I'm in a war zone. A lot of these places have areas of calm, so covering war doesn't necessarily mean being shot at all the time.

First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days.

It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim.