Quotes of: Capitol-hill Keyword

Strapped by tight credit and plummeting sales, businesses have overhauled the way they manage supply chains, inventory, production practices and staffing.

Janet Yellen

Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not. Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously.

Janet Yellen

Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.

Jonathan Zittrain

I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.

Kate Adie

The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.

Ken Auletta

The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill.

Katharine Lee Bates

In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.

Katherine Boo

I feel like a human pinata. The disappointing thing is, no candy is going to spill out.

Katie Couric

I was quite creative at school, and was also interested in fashion , but I was shy - I'm still not the loudest of people, believe it or not.

Kirsty Gallacher

When I speak, people know that in my gut, I'm bad. They feel better about being bad in guts.

Kieron Gillen

Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.

Karl Rove

I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.

Karl Rove

I am a big proponent of being in touch with everyone even when I do not have a story to ask about.

Kara Swisher

I bought tiny infant onesies while still in college and compiled a killer toy collection throughout my 20s and 30s.

Kara Swisher

As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.

Kara Swisher

It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.

Kara Swisher

If you're 28 and singing about being over the hill, you're pretending. When you're 67 and singing about it, you know what you're talking about.

Loudon Wainwright III

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.

Lewis H. Lapham

A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.

Lance Morrow

This evidence is overwhelming at this point. You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer.

Mark Bittman

Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image.

Martin Bashir