Aggressive Quote by David Talbot

Other than that one year, Salon has been very cautious about the way it spends money. For instance, since last year, we've had virtually…

— David Talbot

Our job is not to amuse our readers. Our mission is to stir them, inform and inflame them. Our task is to continually hold…

— Tony Auth

I have long felt that it is readers and viewers of conservative media who could benefit from a more balanced discussion of what is…

— Joe Wilson

Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.

— Kate Winslet

If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam…

— Ali MacGraw

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate…

— John Grisham

'Hairspray' maybe did change people's minds, and that's how you get your political enemies to change their minds - by making them laugh and…

— John Waters

Political journalists love graduate student intelligence, the ability to make clever allusions in seminars, and in 1999-2000 they hassled George W. Bush for not…

— Marvin Olasky

It was something that hopefully sparked a few people to do similar things down the road and will keep a certain flavor of magazine…

— John Buffalo Mailer

What's wrong with it is, it lowers, to say the least, the credibility of the magazine. And if I were writing for [The New…

— Nat Hentoff

I feel like I owe it to the readers to try to pull back the veil and give them the honest version of what's…

— Maureen Dowd

After working at the 'Guardian' for two decades, I feel I know instinctively why it exists. Most of our journalists and our readers do,…

— Katharine Viner