A grownup is a child with layers on.
TV is the best babysitter.
The best movies are simple.
To be silent is to be passive.
Congress is not an ATM.
There's no such thing as an uber-mom.
I want to be invisible.
Education is the vaccine for violence.
Having an education is invaluable.
I'm not very good at strategizing.
Funny is when you're serious.
As an actor there are no drawbacks.
Christ died for the truth.
I'm not really into religion.
Hizbullah is not a militia.
My work... is my legacy.
(John F.) Kennedy was an elitist and not a populist. He was enthralled by a certain British aristocratic view of politics in which an enlightened ruling class makes reasoned, rational decisions that are in the interest of the more emotional and easil...
But unlike Jack, Bobby had not been groomed to be a candidate, and he was constitutionally incapable of the flattery and false praise with which politicians like Johnson got others to do their daily bidding.
A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and...
Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force.
Reaganism as a political movement has enormous resources behind it and it seeks - through stagecraft and through a tremendous level of effort toward propaganda - to present an image of Reagan that is so much larger-than-life that it sort of blinds us...
