Distraction Quote by Michael Beschloss

“So many of the professional foreign policy establishment, and so many of their hangers-on among the lumpen academics and journalists, had become worried by…

— Christopher Hitchens

Libraries have had a long history of dealing with authoritarian organizations demanding reader records - who's read what - and this has led to…

— Brewster Kahle

“When I thought of archives-documents stored and studied-I though of poets, writers, politicians, scientists. But why shouldn't the archives of the eaters also have…

— Robin Sloan

Since leaving office in 1977, Dr. Kissinger has continued to play a highly influential role in U.S. politics, in the U.S. media, and in…

— Murray Rothbard

“Moreover, Kissinger and Nixon deeply distrusted each other. Kissinger was sometimes contemptuous (behind Nixon's back) of the President. He called Nixon "our drunken friend,"…

— James T. Patterson

The increasing legal pressure against archives has created anxieties among researchers, librarians, and journalists. They cite the need to protect sources who wish to…

— Jonathan Zittrain

If we doubt the power of literature and art to civilise, how come no one has ever been mugged by a person carrying a…

— Howard Jacobson

“Crossing my arms over my chest, I said, a little too heartily, “So this is the library.” There certainly couldn’t be any doubt on…

— Lauren Willig

“Every day, librarians enforce copyright policies that we may disagree with and that, in some ways, run contrary to the values of our profession.…

— R. David Lankes

I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing…

— Bob Woodward

The librarians know the secrets, not the historians

— Dee Brown

“All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the…

— Anne Brontë