Quotes of: Capitol-hill Keyword

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

P. J. O'Rourke

Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.

Susan Faludi

We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills of Ireland for 700 years.

James Larkin

It's not too late, I can still live my dreams.

Diana Nyad

In college, the guys aren't worrying about whether they'll be able to pursue their career dreams and still have kids.

Gail Collins

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

George Will

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

Polly Toynbee

I don't know how you can move out of one's socioeconomic category if you don't have education.

Soledad O'Brien

To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.

Timothy Noah

Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.

Caitlin Flanagan

The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.

Dan Rather

A great deal of what is presumed to be intractable or inevitable in this world doesn't strike me that way at all.

Katherine Boo

Move beyond the educated elite, and the great majority in most countries outside Europe don't speak English.

Martin Jacques

I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.

Nate Silver

Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt faced adversities that, in their times, seemed impregnable. Great presidents overcome great odds.

Ron Fournier

The finest chroniclers of the great and the near-great have often been courtiers - the Duc de Saint-Simon, for instance, or Lady Murasaki.

Robert Gottlieb

One of the great ironies of the social media era is that some of the least social people in the world created it.

Sarah Lacy

I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems.

Ben Bradlee

If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.

Diane Sawyer

Reducing every issue to an argument can become stale but it's often a very good way of clarifying issues.

Evan Davis

Cricketers are made to feel that they are very special. That is okay as long as cricketers realise they are only as good as their last innings.

Harsha Bhogle