#sm

Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical. There are pockets of extremism in Israel, in the U.S. and in the Muslim world. But we have to fight them with reason, with logic and with compassion. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

#extremism #fight #governments #israel #logic

After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause. ↗

— David Talbot

#became #cause #change #change the world #college

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#expedite #foresee #inevitable #occurrence #statesmanship

I don't think Fox News or Rush Limbaugh need Clinton it turns out. I think there's a hunger out there for - whether it's on the left or right - a more lively and provocative type of political journalism. I think Salon and Fox on the other side have both benefited from that. ↗

— David Talbot

#both #clinton #fox #fox news #hunger

Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession. ↗

— David Talbot

#cause #journalism #just #profession #wacky

Most magazines have become wallpaper, they're all the same, all the same celebrities. It's really an abysmal time in American journalism right now. But occasionally one story or two will pop out. ↗

— David Talbot

#american #become #celebrities #journalism #magazines

The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism. ↗

— David Talbot

#closest thing #cruz #i #journalism #me

This issue, if not addressed, leaves any President, including George Bush, open to the criticism that they are essentially ignoring the destruction of the nation and I believe that with all my heart. ↗

— Tom Tancredo

#any #believe #bush #criticism #destruction

There has never been a time in my life when I felt that I could take a gun and shoot down a fellow-being. In this respect I am a Quaker. ↗

— D.L. Moody

#religous #life

The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#acceptance #challenge #character #child #choice