Leslie Cockburn

“It's a very enclosed world on Wall Street.”

“After reading Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad when I was a student at Yale, I wanted to live in the world they captured in their books. I had had some experience living in Africa. I was draw...”

“When you have a situation that's destructive, when there's tremendous inhumanity everywhere, you see how humanity survives in all of its different permutations.”

“When I was in London at NBC, I was the lowest man on the totem pole. I would go to diplomatic receptions to meet people.”

“Journalism, for me, has always been a calling. There are things that must be exposed to the light, truths that must be uncovered, stories worth risking your life for.”