Quotes of: Thompson Keyword

There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.

Curtis Sittenfeld

The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.

Ellen Willis

Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.

George Will

Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?

Lewis H. Lapham

Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.

P. J. O'Rourke

Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.

Rich Lowry

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

Stephen Leacock

I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.

Serj Tankian

Big swings in the wholesale price of electricity are not unusual in the summer, when high demand taxes generators' ability to supply power.

Alex Berenson

More than 30 of America's 100 nuclear power reactors have the same brand of General Electric reactors or containment system used in Fukushima.

Bill Dedman

Palestinians have had to live for a long time with the fact that Israelis had power over them in their everyday lives.

Barton Gellman

Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind.

Sara Sheridan

A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character.

Sara Sheridan

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book.

Terri Windling

Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.

Val Kilmer

It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.

Vin Scully

My rule of thumb is that if I am interested or intrigued by something, others will be as well.

Wolf Blitzer

Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.

Walter Cronkite

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

Wally Lamb

You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.

William Langewiesche

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

William McFee