"Very much. I'm of Arab background."

“...it took a lot of chutzpah on the part of a lot of newspaper women who came here in the twenties, thirties, forties, and fifties to break down the barriers against women reporters. And we couldn’t even become members of the National Press Corps until 1971 — that’s pretty late in the game. We got the vote, which we should’ve been born with, in 1920. Everything we’ve had to struggle for — it’s ridiculous.”

“All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.”

“We've got to break through the wall of secrecy. It's America's fate.”

“Remember, these people are occupied, and it's their land, not German and not Poland's.”

“We were never hyphenated as Arab-Americans. We were American, and I have always rejected the hyphen and I believe all assimilated immigrants should not be designated ethnically. Or separated, of course, by race, or creed either. These are trends that ever try to divide us as a people.”

“:Now, are you familiar of the history of that region, and what took place?”