All Nancy Gibbs Quotes
- Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers. All
- War is being waged all across the country against the invasive plant and animal species - some 50,000 of them - now spreading across the… Across
- While many alien species are harmless, others pose expensive threats to seas and fields and forests. Alien
- In design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own. All
- Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip. Fingertip
- 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… Already Claimed
- It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace. Airspace
- Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it. Conflict
- Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by… Avoid
- Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting. Accounting
- Most professional women I know - myself included - long since gave up looking for a rulebook or a roadmap; we make it up as… Abstract
- 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… Able
- As a candidate, Obama disdained the game of politics, a self-conscious contrast to all the tireless political athletes named Clinton. All
- Obama was elected on a slogan of hope and change because both were in short supply: the military exhausted by two wars, the banks failing… Banks
- Obama promised a return to competence and confidence and asked the nation to believe again that the government could do big things well. In the… All
- Americans sometimes ask what the government does and where their tax money goes. Among other things, it pays for all kinds of invisible but essential… All
- After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault. Almost Unimaginable
- Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror and fear. All
- High school is a haunted house in April, when seniors act up because the end is near. Even those who hate school sometimes cling to… Act
- In 2001, President George W. Bush was condemned for politicizing science with his decision to limit federal funding for stem-cell research; in 2009 President Obama… Arguably
- The crossroads of science and politics is a dodgy place. Crossroads
- We will never know if any other president approached Nixon in paranoia, profanity or potential criminality, since only his conversations were captured, subpoenaed and ultimately… Any
- Charlie Rangel was writing laws on our taxes as chair of the Ways and Means Committee while somehow neglecting to pay his own. Chair
- Rooting from the sidelines is the most democratic of sporting rites: no skyboxes, no tickets required, just an unabashed will to holler and wave. Democratic
- All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends. All