Best Jill Lepore Quotes
- In the nineteen-thirties, one in four Americans got their news from William Randolph Hearst, who lived in a castle and owned twenty-eight newspapers in nineteen… American
- In 2010, one in four Americans got the news from Fox News. American
- Well-reported news is a public good; bad news is bad for everyone. Bad
- Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history. Branch
- Political elites vote in a more partisan fashion than the mass public; this tendency, too, follows a curve. The more you know, the more likely… Consistent
- If you know a lot about something and apply that information to a vote that matches your policy preferences, your opinion quality is high. Apply
- Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests. Academic
- Few American presidents have been unhappier or lonelier in office than Woodrow Wilson. American
- Presidential biography is, by its nature, out of scale; no character is bigger, no action greater, than the person and the doings of the American… Action
- A problem with a president who leads by stirring the moral sentiments of voters is that he has got to keep stirring them. Keep Stirring
- My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determination,… Borne
- My mother liked to command me to do things I found scary. I always wanted to stay home and read. My mother only ever wanted… Always Wanted
- Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves. Allows
- As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never… Analysis
- A mystery, in Christian theology, is what God knows and man cannot, and must instead believe. Believe
- In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless paid with their labor. Taxing trade made medieval… Ancient
- Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. Benefitted
- Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment;… Bridges
- The very first television ad targeted to women was produced by the Eisenhower-Nixon campaign in 1956. It includes footage of a woman supervising her children… Ad
- When I was a kid, my father would go to our school in the summer to sweep, mop, and wax the floors, room by room,… Father
- Weirdly, there have been a lot of critics of conservatism, but very few critics of innovation. As a culture, we are deeply paranoid about politics,… Adulation
- Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible. Century
- Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines - they were… Book
- In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world. Citizen
- Americans, among the marryingest people in the world, are also the divorcingest. American