Nancy Gibbs Quotes
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A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the four major U.S. sports leagues.
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I like the fact that glass ceilings are breaking all over.
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
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We are bombarded with reasons to stay inside: we're afraid of mosquitoes because of West Nile and grass because of pesticides and sun because of cancer and sunscreen because of vitamin-D deficiency.
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Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide.
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I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.
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Americans are grateful for the connection and convenience their phones provide, helping them search for a lower price, navigate a strange city, expand a customer base or track their health and finances, their family and friends.
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Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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Bill Clinton left office with a more than 60% approval rating.
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Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a change represents an advance or a retreat.
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.
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Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.
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People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.