Nancy Gibbs

Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults.

— Nancy Gibbs

Kids are more nimble than wise.

— Nancy Gibbs

We want laws to be applied predictably.

— Nancy Gibbs

A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.

— Nancy Gibbs

Barack Obama wants teacher service scholarships.

— Nancy Gibbs

The crossroads of science and politics is a dodgy place.

— Nancy Gibbs

“His manner somehow friendly and courtly at the same time.”

— Nancy Gibbs

Illusions are the truths we live by until we know better.

— Nancy Gibbs

In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.

— Nancy Gibbs

If anything, the power of the cover of 'Time' has increased as the media landscape has atomized.

— Nancy Gibbs

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

— Nancy Gibbs

There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.

— Nancy Gibbs

It's funny how things change slowly, until the day we realize they've changed completely.

— Nancy Gibbs

The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5.

— Nancy Gibbs

I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.

— Nancy Gibbs

There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.

— Nancy Gibbs

Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a…

— Nancy Gibbs

The Reverend Jeremiah Wright would baptize Obama, perform his marriage to Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, baptize their daughters, and draw him into the…

— Nancy Gibbs

It's no secret that the media has fragmented in recent years, that audiences have been cut into slivers, and that more and…

— Nancy Gibbs

The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn,…

— Nancy Gibbs

Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust…

— Nancy Gibbs

In modern warfare, journalists are among the first responders, seeking out truth in the turmoil and wreckage, wherever it takes them.

— Nancy Gibbs

Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate…

— Nancy Gibbs

Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough…

— Nancy Gibbs

Nixon urged Clinton to maintain his relationship with Yeltsin but make contact with other democrats in Russia. He warned Clinton away from…

— Nancy Gibbs

In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it…

— Nancy Gibbs

I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How…

— Nancy Gibbs

Americans sometimes ask what the government does and where their tax money goes. Among other things, it pays for all kinds of…

— Nancy Gibbs

Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their…

— Nancy Gibbs

In 2001, President George W. Bush was condemned for politicizing science with his decision to limit federal funding for stem-cell research; in…

— Nancy Gibbs

Maybe we adults idealize our own red-rover days, the hot afternoons spent playing games that required no coaches, eating foods that involved…

— Nancy Gibbs

In his final remarks to the White House staff, on the day he resigned his office, Nixon applied a version of the…

— Nancy Gibbs

If you want to humble an empire it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when…

— Nancy Gibbs

“The modern Presidents Club was founded by two men who by all rights should have loathed each other. There was Harry Truman,…

— Nancy Gibbs

Eisenhower had run the Army; he knew all the ways decision making can go off the rails, and insisted on collective debate…

— Nancy Gibbs

“Bill Clinton was lucky in many ways; but when it came to former presidents, he won the lottery. When he was elected…

— Nancy Gibbs

People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.

— Nancy Gibbs

You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.

— Nancy Gibbs

Time is valuable; people are busy.

— Nancy Gibbs

Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.

— Nancy Gibbs