If you agree with a critic, you admire him or her. If you disagree, you despise them. We all feel a great need to be confirmed in our opinions.
Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.
Red is the great clarifier - bright and revealing. I can't imagine becoming bored with red - it would be like becoming bored with the person you love.
Believing that a crisis is a useful thing to create, the Obama administration - which understands that, for liberalism, worse is better - has deliberately aggravated the fiscal shambles that the Great Recession accelerated.
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
I am incredibly proud of the many journalists I have worked with throughout my career and the great campaigns that we have fought and won.
Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems.
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
The question for Obama is how he can rein in the furies of populism while making us all feel the malefactors of great wealth are being sufficiently punished.
I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person.
We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.
Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading.
For me, the brand of the camera is not the most important thing. I think you can take good pictures with the camera on your phone.
It's very important to feel good in my clothes. I like fashion that suits me. I don't take it too seriously.
I'm a believer in what your record is. I am what my record is - some of it good, some of it bad, some of it hard to tell.
Most of us entered journalism and joined 'news organizations' because we care about the greater good. We strive to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
But sometimes it's good to dare yourself to do the unthinkable. And rather than stand in front of an audience with no clothes on, I decided to have a go at stand-up comedy.
The two questions that anyone ever asks me are: 'Are house prices going to go down?' and 'Is it a good time to fix my mortgage rate?'
Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides.
I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
