Asks Quote by Ella Baker

I remember that in Baltimore, where I grew up, we would drive by the radio station and tower of WBAL, and I would try…

— Ira Glass

One of the particular things that impressed me was one visitor [of NAACP] - I think it was - it wasn't the Prime Minister…

— Ella Baker

The most surreal moment might have been meeting President Obama. It was really cool, actually; they, like, announced us into the room. There was…

— Gaten Matarazzo

There were colored and white waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know. But there were actually…

— Isabel Wilkerson

9 saw the first direct-dialed long-distance telephone call, between New York and San Francisco. Of course, back in that primitive era the parties had…

— Dave Barry

Starting in '98 when I was researching 'Traffic,' I got to meet really serious people in Washington, which for a screenwriter was kind of…

— Stephen Gaghan

My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his…

— Richard M. Nixon

I can pretty much call anyone, whether at the White House, in a company or in the media. I have access, because of the…

— Andrew Shue

“Most of us, out of a politeness made up of faint curiosity and profound resignation, go out to meet the smiling stranger with a…

— James Thurber

“To illustrate the marked atmospheric contrast between the two cities, the writer Frank Carpenter observed that in New York, “a streetcar will not wait…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“(Almost everybody in the White House followed Trump’s thinking by tracking whom he had called the night before.)”

— Michael Wolff

“Washington's all abstraction. It's about access to power and nothing else. I mean, I'm sure it's fun if you're living next door to Seinfeld,…

— Jonathan Franzen