Quotes by Nancy Gibbs

About Nancy Gibbs:

Nancy Reid Gibbs is an American essayist and managing editor for Time magazine, a best-selling author and commentator on politics and values in the United States. She is the co-author with Michael Duffy of The New York Times Bestsellers The Preacher and the Presidents; Billy Graham in the White House (2007) and The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity (2012).
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.

Nancy Gibbs

Hillary Clinton wants to leave behind No Child Left Behind.

Nancy Gibbs

In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.

Nancy Gibbs

Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.

Nancy Gibbs

People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.

Nancy Gibbs

Presidents make their hard decisions and then abide forever with their mistakes and regrets.

Nancy Gibbs

Rarely has a new player on the world stage captured so much attention so quickly - young and old, faithful and cynical - as has Pope Francis.

Nancy Gibbs

The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5.

Nancy Gibbs

Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.

Nancy Gibbs

Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.

Nancy Gibbs

While many alien species are harmless, others pose expensive threats to seas and fields and forests.

Nancy Gibbs

I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational...

Nancy Gibbs

After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon, and overwhelmed Ford and Carter.

Nancy Gibbs

When I was coming out of college, storytelling was very much something you did with pencil and paper, so the technological platform versatility, I think, is really valuable.

Nancy Gibbs

As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.

Nancy Gibbs

A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.

Nancy Gibbs

We will never know if any other president approached Nixon in paranoia, profanity or potential criminality, since only his conversations were captured, subpoenaed and ultimately released on the front pages of newspapers.

Nancy Gibbs

A president can't go to every memorial service.

Nancy Gibbs

I would like to see every newspaper and every magazine have a network of bureaus all over the world, gathering news.

Nancy Gibbs

I like the fact that glass ceilings are breaking all over.

Nancy Gibbs

As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.

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Author Bio

  • NameNancy Gibbs
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornJanuary 25, 1960
  • CountryUnited States Of America