Congress has been productive when focusing on bites of policy that don’t inflame the divisions within the party and quietly do the work of governing. Kristen Soltis Anderson Read Quote
Look at me, I’m getting defensive about something that happened so many years ago, somebody said. I’ll have to find out who that was and if he’s still alive. Paul Reubens Read Quote
If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame. Oscar Wilde Read Quote
I mean, republics have fallen because of Praetorian Guard mentality where government officials get very arrogant, they identify the national interest with their own political preferences and they feel that anyone who has a different opinion, you know, is somehow an enemy of the state. William Barr Read Quote
When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I’ve gone on. I certainly don’t feel I need his approval, although maybe that’s because I’m confident that I’ve got it. Paul Theroux Read Quote
I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union. Robert Dallek Read Quote
I’m very happy with the response for everything I’ve done, but, you know, sometimes you get things like, ‘Oh, ‘Spaced’ Series One wasn’t as good as ‘Spaced’ Series Two.’ Or ‘Shaun of the Dead’ is not as good as ‘Spaced,’ or, ‘Hot Fuzz’ is not as good as ‘Shaun.’ Or, now, ‘The World’s End’ is not ‘Shaun of the Dead.’ Edgar Wright Read Quote
I had a couple of severe injuries, and it’s not easy to watch your team from a bed in a hospital! Lothar Matthaus Read Quote
I had a wonderful father, and I couldn’t bear that television virtually ignored black fathers. Esther Rolle Read Quote
