Quotes of: Capitol-hill Keyword

Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.

Clay Shirky

People look at you and see that you've made it, but sometimes they forget that it took you years of being a human being.

Cristina Saralegui

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Helen Rowland

With the fragmentation of television audiences and the advent of cable and on-demand services, the prestige of being an anchor is not what it was in the days of Walter Cronkite.

Jill Abramson

I think as an investigative reporter I had tough standards, but I don't think of myself as a tough person.

Jill Abramson

The times I didn't get jobs I wanted, I remember feeling dispirited - really crestfallen.

Jill Abramson

I don't remember ever being full of dislike and hatred for people, like some kids I've come across now.

Jeffrey Bernard

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

Jimmy Breslin

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.

Deborah Norville

I want my kids to be curious, to be interested in a lot of things, to be confident, and to feel they belong in any number of situations.

Deborah Norville

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one.

David Remnick

Most conservative and progressive talk radio is primarily just that - bloviated opinion and whacky viewer calls.

David Shuster

I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.

Diane Sawyer

Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1,000 apple trees agrowing.

Ezra Cornell

Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.

Esther Dyson

The problem with writing a book about bulimia is that whenever you go to the washroom, people think you're throwing up.

Emma Forrest

You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.

Ellen Goodman

A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.

Ernie Harwell

When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.

Ernie Harwell

Counterterrorism analysts have known for years that al Qaeda prepares for attacks with elaborate 'targeting packages' of photographs and notes.

Barton Gellman