Quotes of: Capitol-hill Keyword

Disinterested public service has become, just so... what's the phrase, 'old school.'

Tina Brown

I haven't spent years, like Alyse Nelson of Vital Voices, toiling for female economic empowerment on five continents.

Tina Brown

I know as much as anyone how much her most fervent supporters want Hillary Clinton to run for president.

Tina Brown

In the world of screens, we're all tired of screens. That's why I think that live events have become so popular.

Tina Brown

What I think is that Fox has done a very smart job of carving out their place.

Tom Brokaw

Lauren Hill, I always have her solo CD nearby. I have Coldplay, Radiohead, just a mix.

Taryn Manning

For every $5 that Boston's economy sends up to Beacon Hill, the state gives only $1 back to us.

Thomas Menino

How can you interview somebody about something fairly technical if you start on the wrong foot by not even knowing his name?

Trevor McDonald

The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be surprised.

Trevor McDonald

Income inequality has gotten worse under President Barack Obama.

Timothy Noah

For any politician who didn't enter office a wealthy man, nothing says 'I take bribes' like a Rolex watch.

Timothy Noah

Gun Owners of America is a lobby group dedicated to the proposition that the National Rifle Association is a bunch of accommodationist sissies.

Timothy Noah

On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is just details.

Timothy Noah

No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne.

Timothy Noah

The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place.

Timothy Noah

Vote Republican if you like, but don't kid yourself that a Republican president would replace Obamacare with anything at all.

Timothy Noah

When a conservative praises a liberal as 'morally serious,' he means that person is less liberal than most.

Timothy Noah

'Dragnet' (the 1951 original, transferred nearly intact from radio) served as a veritable template for all cop shows to come.

Tom Shales

Keedwell cites a study of depression in the Netherlands that found that most people coped better with adversity after experiencing depression.

Jan Wong

When you're unemployed for six months or a year, it is hard to qualify for a lease, so even the option of relocating to find a job is often off the table.

Janet Yellen

I'm just opposed to a pure inflation-only mandate in which the only thing a central bank cares about is inflation and not employment.

Janet Yellen