84 Quotes by Michael Hastings

My younger brother is a decorated combat veteran and was a platoon leader in Iraq.

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.

She has been Stalinized out of literary history on the theory that she messed up Eliot's life.

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.

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.

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.

To General McChrystal, those men on his team are his family. You know, these guys, they would do anything. They would die for each other.

He's been wanting to do this forever, ... Mike began writing in sixth grade.

I was a researcher on Friday and Saturday nights, ... but I spent a lot more time there. We were having a heat wave and the office was air-conditioned. They mistook me for a hard worker.