#mos

I think you can be tough and aggressive with facts in a way that you cannot be tough and aggressive with emotional retorts. Most of the people that try to be tough on TV are really just being emotional and not factual. ↗

— John Sununu

#being #cannot #emotional #facts #factual

It's counterintuitive, but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency, a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party, the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority. ↗

— John Sununu

#both #congress #controls #cooperate #divisive

Al-Qaeda has a kind of loose, almost entrepreneurial structure with lots of cells in various countries that are semi-independent. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#almost #cells #countries #entrepreneurial #kind

All of the leading terrorism experts are clear on one thing: that in terms of protecting America, we are almost never going to know a place or a time of an attack. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#america #attack #clear #experts #going

By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#almost #books #default #discipline #especially

The informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#conference #dangerous #dangerous thing #informed #most

I've made a career writing about fictitious anti-heroes. To create these worlds, I've spent a lot of time with active members on both sides of the law. And if I had to pick the most interesting of the two, the choice is obvious - we all love the guys in black. ↗

— Kurt Sutter

#active #black #both #both sides #career

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism. ↗

— David Suzuki

#education #failed #important #important lesson #lesson

Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas. ↗

— David Suzuki

#including #just #most #oil #other

The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements in the conditions of human life. ↗

— Theodor Svedberg

#been #changes #conditions #formed #foundation