David Ignatius We haven’t usually had to face the extreme questions about liberty and order because we’re not a nation of extremists. We love freedom and good government both. – David Ignatius Extreme Quotes Extremists Quotes Freedom Quotes Government Quotes Liberty Quotes Love Quotes Nation Quotes Questions Quotes Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, arguably President Obama’s best Cabinet appointment, has been leading a quiet revolution in clean-energy technology. Innovation is transforming this industry, costs are plummeting and entrepreneurs are devising radical new systems that create American jobs – in addition to protecting the planet. The American experiment has always depended on a measure of tolerance and good sense.
Leo Kottke I am evidence that you don’t have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job. – Leo Kottke
Megan Phelps-Roper My friends on Twitter didn’t abandon their beliefs or their principles – only their scorn. They channeled their infinitely justifiable offense and came to me with pointed questions tempered with kindness and humor. They approached me as a human being, and that was more transformative than two full decades of outrage, disdain, and violence. – Megan Phelps-Roper
Billy Collins Poems, for me, begin as a social engagement. I want to establish a kind of sociability or even hospitality at the beginning of a poem. The title and the first few lines are a kind of welcome mat where I am inviting the reader inside. – Billy Collins
FinanceHuda Kattan I ended up moving to Dubai and going into finance after college because of family pressure. I was trying to love it, but I just didn’t. – Huda Kattan
Richard Edelman The ‘truthiness’ of Trump’s so-called facts, the questions he posed on President Obama’s nationality or jobs destroyed by free trade, has the same effect as dueling scientists on issues such as obesity or climate change. – Richard Edelman
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