Quotes of: Capitol-hill Keyword

Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.

Sam Levenson

Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.

Sam Levenson

Get a lawyer to look at your contract or beware. Because no company - evil or not - is going to do it for you.

Sarah Lacy

The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.

Steven Levy

Publicists cater to bloggers because they can play them; bloggers cater to publicists because they want their ads.

Stephen Rodrick

To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.

Sally Schneider

I had no trouble with strangers finding out about my anxiety. It was my friends and colleagues I was concerned about.

Scott Stossel

To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition.

Scott Stossel

Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.

Stella Young

The thing about living with any disability is that you adapt; you do what works for you.

Stella Young

Physical access is one of the very first issues disability rights activists of the 1960s and '70s fought for.

Stella Young

Now everyone leaking and tweeting and posting on everyone else is the acknowledged way to get ahead in the 21st century.

Tina Brown

Celebrity these days is completely for sale; it's not remotely mysterious. But there's something that remains glamorous and mysterious about royalty.

Tina Brown

'Worshipping in private,' as Obama does, comes off as just another form of annoying elitism.

Tina Brown

The first black president was a hotter plot line than the first woman president.

Tina Brown

American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them.

Tina Brown

Movie stars today are as greedy for additional kids as bankers are for bonuses. It's the new badge of authenticity.

Tina Brown

There are a multitude of mothers in the world who have a daughter who is stolen, or who are stolen daughters themselves.

Tina Brown

Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.

Tina Brown

People today don't become economists to make the world a better place.

Tim Harford

To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy.

Trevor McDonald