Quotes of: Capitol-hill Keyword

Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.

Markus Zusak

Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.

P. J. O'Rourke

Cancer is messy and scary. You throw everything at it, but don't forget to throw love at it. It turns out that might be the best weapon of all.

Regina Brett

'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and virtually incorruptible.

Ron Fournier

We know that Diana Vishneva is a phenomenon of strength and style, and she certainly has earned the right to stretch her talents as best she can.

Robert Gottlieb

There are many roads to journalism. My feeling is that your best bet in college is to study the subjects you will want to write about, whether politics, the environment or the law.

Serge Schmemann

In days gone by, short-statured people were not only labelled as ugly, stupid and freakish, they were often owned by aristocrats and treated, at best, as entertainment and, at worst, as pets.

Stella Young

It was Barry Diller's idea to start 'The Daily Beast,' and he has turned out to be the best partner I've ever had. There's no one better to go into the jungle with.

Tina Brown

A confused mind is one that is open to the possibility of change.

Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine

I didn't view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN.

Gregg Easterbrook

Justice is the virtue we 'd rather have done unto others than practiced on ourselves.

Jonathan V. Last

Have you ever been homesick for someplace that doesn't actually exist anymore? Someplace that exists only in your mind?

Jenny Lawson

The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.

Henry Mayhew

But to understand what it means to be strong and courageous, Christians should look to the person of Christ.

Marvin Olasky

Celebrities are not necessarily the richest people of all, but on the face of it, they seem to be representative of the very richest people.

Nancy Jo Sales

We're so very focused on ourselves and on self-promotion. It goes on all day with Facebook and Twitter and Instagram.

Nancy Jo Sales

I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'

Nate Silver

...the ratings agencies' problem was in being unable or uninterested in appreciating the distinction between risk and uncertainty.

Nate Silver

I didn't know how much I cared about having a woman on the court until the day there was a woman on the court.

Nina Totenberg

Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I've developed a pretty thick skin.

Pete Earley

Despite being able to demonstrate a very large audience, major advertisers at first wouldn't touch Limbaugh.

Paul Weyrich