I think some people at Doubleday worried about that a bit when Knockemstiff came out, but, with the exception of one or… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
In the US, voters cast ballots for individual candidates who are not bound to any party program except rhetorically, and not always… — Ben Bagdikian Copy Share Image
I've watched towns and cities evolve and become very resilient, and fun, and unique, and prosperous on their own terms. And the… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
Magnum photographers were meant to go out as a crusade ... to places like famine and war and ... I went out… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
We need to demilitarize local police departments so that they do not look like occupying armies. We want police departments that look… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I think Common Core is a disaster. That doesn't mean there can't be a little tentacle left of the Department of Education,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
To make matters worse, federal drug forfeiture laws allow state and local law enforcement agencies to keep, for their own use, up… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
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A hack writer who would have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tried out a few of the old proven 'sure-fire'… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
There are no Russian units in eastern Ukraine - no special services, no tactical advisors. All this is being done by the… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
As my good friend Al Capp told me a few years ago, the best thing to do with a confirmed [hotel] reservation… — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
As president, I will instruct the Department of Justice to create a joint task force throughout the United States to work together… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The challenge, then, is to take minds and hearts formed over the long millennia of living in local troops and equip them… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
Women are still chronically underrepresented in U.S. politics at both a local and national level... But there is one city where those… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
Traditional Anglo-Saxon intolerance is a local and temporal culture trait like any other. — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
While I was in college, I became a page at ABC. Suddenly I was working for Good Morning America, local news, national… — Anne Sweeney Copy Share Image
Last week, I approved a mission over New York. I take responsibility for that decision. While federal authorities took the proper steps… — Louis Caldera Copy Share Image
Local assemblies of the people constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science:… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
You see, when a nation threatens another nation the people of the latter forget their factionalism, their local antagonisms, their political differences,… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
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I came from another county. I spent 15 years in Wells, but I was treated like an outsider. It was like, "Oh,… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
The national media will talk about (national problems) because it's something that everyone in all 50 states can understand, but the reality… — Larry Sabato Copy Share Image
To Forget Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable… — Chase Twichell Copy Share Image
I would like to dissolve the $10 billion national Department of Education created by President Carter and turn schools back to the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
