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I welcome all interviews with 'Rolling Stone' magazine, and I'm sure people will talk to me in the future.

Despite the absurdity and the silliness and the triviality of the entire campaign experience, there is also something, as non-cynical as this sounds, kind of uplifting and strange about watching democracy unfold.

The first time I met President Obama was 2006 in Baghdad. He was the senator from Illinois; it was a month before he actually ended up declaring. He had to come to Baghdad to kind of check that box, and...

Whenever you're reporting, there's always something you can't say or write, but the questions, you always want to get as close to that line as possible. You want to ask the tough questions.

Obama's people will all often complain about how trivial and silly the media is, but there's no president who's probably benefited from this sort of trivialness or superficial nature as President Obama.

For me, when I go in to write a profile, and no ground rules are laid down, and I'm there to write an on-the-record profile and cover readings while in the room, then that means it's on the record.

If someone tells you something is off the record, I don't print it. If they don't tell me something is off the record, then it's fair game.

If Bill O'Reilly is calling you a far-left critic, in my book, no matter what your political persuasion is, that's probably - that probably means you're doing a good job.

When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence.

You basically have to be willing to devote your life to journalism if you want to break in. Treat it like it's medical school or law school.

When interviewing for a job, tell the editor how you love to report. How your passion is gathering information. Do not mention how you want to be a writer, use the word 'prose,' or that deep down you have a...

By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained.

I thought Gen. McChrystal was unfireable, that his position was secure.

I write for fun. I had written a kind of media satire, but I doubt it will see the light of day. It was just a personal project.

General McChrystal wanted to be on the cover of 'Rolling Stone.'

General David Petraeus was so successful at getting on covers of magazines, having journalists fall in love with him, that in fact he was able to use that power to go around the normal chain of command.

I think it's very difficult to make people care about natives in another country.

When my editors and I at 'Rolling Stone' came up with the idea to do a profile of General McChrystal, I simply just e-mailed General McChrystal's press staff, said we wanted to do a profile, and said if you could...

I think when war becomes your life, I think it's very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.

As for the like of Hillary Clinton, I - you know, I've covered Secretary of State Clinton before. I covered her during her campaign. And she's a very likable and charismatic person once you get the chance to spend any...

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