Nancy Gibbs Quotes
Top 84 wise famous quotes and sayings by Nancy Gibbs
Nancy Gibbs Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Nancy Gibbs on Wise Famous Quotes.
There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting.
If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics," Ford said, "then something is the matter with politics.
Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes.
As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
Inflicting emotional distress has typically been treated as a civil action. How 'substantial' does the distress have to be for it to turn criminal?
Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.
My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football.
The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5.
Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
I would like to see every newspaper and every magazine have a network of bureaus all over the world, gathering news.
Charlie Rangel was writing laws on our taxes as chair of the Ways and Means Committee while somehow neglecting to pay his own.
Years later, nothing makes me more grateful as a parent than my daughters' encounters with classroom wizards.
In modern warfare, journalists are among the first responders, seeking out truth in the turmoil and wreckage, wherever it takes them.
You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.
Rarely has a new player on the world stage captured so much attention so quickly - young and old, faithful and cynical - as has Pope Francis.
When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped.
Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a change represents an advance or a retreat.
Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.
While many alien species are harmless, others pose expensive threats to seas and fields and forests.
After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault.
What cultural DNA remains from those first Puritan forays onto American soil may be our love of a fresh start.
Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.
In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.
When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak.
On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.
As a candidate, Obama disdained the game of politics, a self-conscious contrast to all the tireless political athletes named Clinton.
Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul.
Sure, we want to know what a president believes in ... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.
In design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own.
Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.
I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
Rooting from the sidelines is the most democratic of sporting rites: no skyboxes, no tickets required, just an unabashed will to holler and wave.
It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteria can learn new tricks when you're not looking.
At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
America's presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the job once they attain it.
The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
It is actually the neuroscientists and evolutionists who do the best job of explaining the reasons behind the most unreasonable behavior.
All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
War is being waged all across the country against the invasive plant and animal species - some 50,000 of them - now spreading across the U.S.