Quotes of: Thompson Keyword

Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.

Peter De Vries

The Fox News cable channel is doing very well because there is a market for what Fox News has to offer.

Paul Weyrich

The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it.

Paul Weyrich

Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline.

Paul Weyrich

One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure.

Peter York

You could arm-wrestle with a T. rex and win, but you shouldn't because it only makes them mad.

Robert T. Bakker

I actually don't think there is machismo in America, unless it's the cowboy type - the silent, smoking brooder.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Venice, Italy, is one of my favorite cities, a place I've been lucky enough to visit twice.

Rosecrans Baldwin

This is home and home is not something you remember, it is something you see every day and every moment.

Rick Bragg

Every country where the the United States maintains troops has a status of forces agreement.

Richard Engel

Hamas has long been Israel's enemy, but in the wake of the Arab Spring, the group is empowered like never before.

Richard Engel

If Syria collapses completely, the United States and the world would have to consider who, and what, fills the vacuum.

Richard Engel

President Bashar Assad's regime is in the unique position of being targeted both by Israel and supporters of al Qaeda.

Richard Engel

Unfortunately, the American policy towards Pakistan is just to worry and express concern, and that is not a clear policy at all.

Richard Engel

Like a cowboy saddling a bucking stallion, Republican leaders tried to tame the Tea Party while riding it to victories.

Ron Fournier

A concrete agenda and landslide victory might not even guarantee a president his mandate in a capital as polarized as Washington.

Ron Fournier

Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic collapse in 2009.

Ron Fournier

The problem, gentlemen, is that Obama is right: The promise of upward mobility is dying in America, and no amount of political demagoguery will fix it.

Ron Fournier

'Ocean's Kingdom' is a fairy story with no subtext, no resonance - it's not about anything except its water-logged plot.

Robert Gottlieb

Some readers took 'Heaven's My Destination' as a satire on Christianity and the Midwest, but today it reads like a loving comedy.

Robert Gottlieb

Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced.

Robert Gottlieb