This is bad for policy-making – if you cover up the problems, how can you solve them? It also corrodes public trust. Government must be much more honest about the challenges facing the country, if we are to begin to tackle them. Short-term spin must give way to proper long-term strategic thinking. Dominic Grieve Read Quote
I love Beyonce. She’s so fierce. I also love Lily Allen, and she was an influence on my music. Bridgit Mendler Read Quote
Ronald Reagan, who led the larger New Right project of re-sanctifying U.S. foreign policy after its Vietnam disaccreditation, felt compelled to drape his support for Central American death squads in the rhetoric of American exceptionalism. Greg Grandin Read Quote
White players always said to me: ‘You can call me ‘a white so and so,’ I don’t mind.’ But that’s because society has indoctrinated us over the past 400 years to think that that’s like saying ‘you handsome so and so.’ John Barnes Read Quote
Everybody made mistakes for years, but by making them, everybody learned – myself, the franchise, coaches, players, LeBron, everybody. Dan Gilbert Read Quote
You don’t need a religious background to strive for something good, for genuine compassion and love for others. Miriam Toews Read Quote
When I told my parents, ‘I’m going to be an actor,’ they screamed and wept and freaked out. Alec Baldwin Read Quote
