Zitat des Tages von Tucker Carlson:
Living in Washington, you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.
There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational.
By the time I got to college, mind expansion had lost its appeal.
No agency is more acutely aware of how potentially damning and politically sensitive background investigations can be than the FBI; it conducts those investigations, after all.
I can't wait to work for Rick Kaplan. He's a great producer. I would host an infomercial if he would produce it.
Sharpton is a smart guy. In some ways, he's a good guy. But a moral arbiter? Let's not get carried away.
I am not insecure about being a journalist.
Certain Arabs love Dubai because it's not at all like where they live. Certain others hate it for the same reason. When you hear an Osama bin Laden sympathizer rant about the decadence and hypocrisy of the Arab ruling class, you can be certain he's picturing a nightclub in Dubai.
All that chatter you hear from yuppie parents at the playground about how expensive it is to 'do' bathrooms? It's all true. Every word, and worse.
It's easy to mock a man who has founded a religion based on John Coltrane, who considers 'A Love Supreme,' whatever its merits as a jazz album, to be holy scripture.
In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.
American officials have bent over backwards to show how sensitive they are to Muslim culture. It didn't seem very effective. They seem to be worried about winning the respect of other people.
I'm not uncomfortable around guns - I've hunted for most of my life - but bringing them on stories is considered taboo.
I am really only interested in new information, not freelance opinion. I don't really care what you think off the top of your head.
I'm not much of an economic conservative, and I'm not conservative at all on foreign policy.
To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something.
I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.
Limbaugh hosts a radio show. His job is to shock people.
Who laughs less than feminists?
I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten class.
Under no circumstances am I going to criticize my family in public.
I think Michael Moore is loathsome, though, not because he dislikes Bush, but because he seems to dislike America.
As a print journalist, you can be frustrated by people who don't call you back, parts of the story you can't get. TV gets you access to everyone because people call you back. It also allows you to satisfy your curiosity. I am a very curious person.
The tax code is becoming steadily more progressive, which shouldn't surprise anyone who understands power politics. It's always easier to force sacrifice on an unpopular minority than it is to ask the majority to pony up.
The one thing I'm convinced George W. Bush is good at is bipartisanship. It's clearly something he enjoys personally.
Get-educated-quick schemes are usually about as sound as subprime mortgage-backed securities: Enticing but basically fraudulent.
Seldom has a politician left public office with more self-generated fanfare than Sen. William S. Cohen.
Unless you know a lot more about something than I do, I am not really that interested. I have too much information already.
The second you feel a political imperative, it destroys your art.
If you want another world war, run up unsustainable debts.
I have never been one to look beyond today.
Studies have shown people listen to TV than watch it.
To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it?
If it was up to the U.N., Saddam Hussein would still be killing his own people.
People often refer to Dubai as the Hong Kong of the Gulf, but it's really more like Vegas.
There will always be some who, for whatever reason, find themselves dependent on the charity of others. But when half the population is along for the ride, the system becomes dangerously out of balance. Things fall apart.