Able Quote by John Podesta

Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with…

— Stephanie Coontz

I think, though, that we need to be armed with the critical thinking skills that lawyers and scientists and journalists such as yourself have.…

— Daniel Levitin

I see a pretty bright line between analysis and opinion. And so, to that end, my goal on Friday nights is to try to…

— Gwen Ifill

I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.

— Juan Cole

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 think we really have to take a good, hard look at our system of corporate consolidated press. We need to break them up.

— Jill Stein

I think, Tom Friedman is right, and I think that we have to - we have to have a serious public dialogue to try…

— Cornel West

You have to create public activist pressure on papers like the 'New York Times' to keep them accountable.

— David Brock

I think on this issue more than any other we're going to see sort of a bipartisan longing to get something done, and hopefully…

— Charles Schumer

I think we need editorial oversight now more than ever. Anything we can do to help newspapers find new ways of expression that will…

— Steve Jobs

That is the key strength of independent academia: we can speak up in spite of corporate or government interests.

— Zeynep Tufekci

It's a very bad idea for scientific conclusions to be accepted because they fit with the political values of a group of researchers.

— Philip Kitcher