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Quotes by Journalist
"When you stop and look at so much of the kind of activism that has been triggered, the Tea Party and the like, as a result of Obama's efforts - TARP, the stimulus package, and now the health care reform - there is a lot of sense this government is changing."
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"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."
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"I remember in 1978 meeting two Ugandan captains in the hotel talking Russian. They had been educated in Moscow and since they came from different Ugandan peoples, it was the only way they could understand one another."
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"The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong"."
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"Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all."
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"Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add."
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"Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another."
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"And there is no getting away from the fact - and this is a key point of discontent among many who are upset with the health care reform bill is it didn't go far enough. They say why isn't it in place now? Why don't I see some benefits now? All I see is the potential for losing insurance coverage, for premiums going up. That's hurting Obama."
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"Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough."
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"To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions."
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"It's probably fair to say that Obama's ideas were too big for America's appetite. It would have been nice had he made a few incremental repairs to the economy and left the transformative events for a less stressful time."
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"Every band needs it's own special chemistry. And Bez was a very good chemist."
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"Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather."
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"If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience."
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"Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea."
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"I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure."
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"Apologize: To lay the foundation for a future offence."
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"Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives."
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"There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa."
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"When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides."
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"The lessons that it teaches are fundamentally the lessons that all great battles teach That even the most carefully prepared plans often go wrong. That lucky breaks are very important."
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"To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing."
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"Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity."
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"As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did."
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"The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are - as women and as mothers."
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"I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head."
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"A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering."
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"22 million new jobs under President Clinton. 3 million lost under Bush."
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"The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth."
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"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run."
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"As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later."
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"The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio."
News,
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"The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians."
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"But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world."
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"If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience."
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"I have no desire to be president of the United States. Zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable. And there are far too many people that are far smarter than me to be president. I'd like to find one with some honor and integrity. I haven't seen them yet, but they'll show up."
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"I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater."
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"Why couldn't Obama have picked somebody respectable as his running mate, you know, like John Kerry did?"
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"I had in effect a user base eager to buy porn but no one to sell it to them."
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"Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure."
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"The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth."
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"Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve."
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"I am no longer sure that when I go out there and do my job it'll even see the light of air, if the experience of my network colleagues is anything to go by."
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"Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach."
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"This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it."
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"We're not paying attention to the fact that Hillary Clinton is running in 2006. Everyone is looking to her for the future. It's the same with anybody else who's positioning themselves."
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"Cable would not translate into the public radio universe."
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"My personal philosophy is I'm running a 100-yard dash, and I haven't reached the end."
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