Jon Meacham Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility. – Jon Meacham Approach Quotes Critical Quotes Element Quotes Engage Quotes Experience Quotes Faith Quotes History Quotes Human Quotes Intrinsic Quotes Religious Quotes Sense Quotes Sensibility Quotes Subject Quotes It’s possible that the 2012 general-election race will be the least overtly religious one since 1972, the last campaign before Roe v. Wade and the rise of Jimmy Carter brought evangelicalism into the political mainstream. That’s because faith remains a complicated issue for Obama, who is still wrongly thought to be a Muslim in some quarters. The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life.
Janet Fitch My father was an engineer – he wasn’t literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world’s great readers. Every two weeks, he’d take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms – ‘Have you read this? And this? And this?’ – Janet Fitch
Ben Domenech I will not apologize ever, for any reason, for publishing the views of people who don’t make a living in politics about why they plan to vote a certain way. – Ben Domenech
Charlie Sykes Mr. Trump understands that attacking the media is the reddest of meat for his base, which has been conditioned to reject reporting from news sites outside of the conservative media ecosystem. – Charlie Sykes
Alejandro Amenabar In Hollywood you always feel a bit like a hake. The publicists march people up and down in front of you and they interview you… You feel like the turbot and the sea-bream go by, and you’re the hake. – Alejandro Amenabar
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