I don’t think we treat people very well in the media, both as customers – and I call them customers – of newspapers and magazines, or TV news, and we don’t understand that the greatest story that we could tell, each and every day, is the story of the people around us. Mike Barnicle Read Quote
Everyone has a smart phone, and everything is recorded. One event spills into another. Conclusions come quickly at the near total expense of consideration of what just actually happened. Mike Barnicle Read Quote
Cardinal Raymond Burke is a 66-year-old guy who lives in Rome, dresses like Queen Elizabeth, and talks like someone who majored in misogyny at some bogus, backwoods, Bible-banging tent school. Mike Barnicle Read Quote
At times, Mario Cuomo seemed to have the humility of a Jesuit and the goals of an emperor. Mike Barnicle Read Quote
In Washington, politicians worry about their ‘base.’ About polls. About ideology. About raising money. About re-election. They measure their future in two- or six-year increments. Mike Barnicle Read Quote
What is forgiveness? An emotion? A coping mechanism? An element of deepest faith? A way for the heart and soul to combat the type of hate, anger, rage and a thirst for revenge that could ultimately consume a person? All of those and more? Mike Barnicle Read Quote
Like most of us, Joe Biden has had moments when he’s led the league in mistakes or verbal gaffes. The difference is his were on a public stage where explanations are almost always made out by pundits to be excuses. Mike Barnicle Read Quote
If you want proof of what the country is really all about, just walk through the National September 11 Memorial Museum. Here it is, in the faces of the victims, in the stories of bravery, in the souls and memory of the survivors, the next of kin. Mike Barnicle Read Quote
