Quotes by Journalists

The idea of not being able to control my own fertility genuinely terrifies me. That one mistake might change your life. That everything I am, and do, could be ended by the repeal of laws our mothers fought so hard for, that women had waited for the entire span of humanity to come about. Caitlin Moran

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Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country? Cal Thomas

Power Country Politicians Morality Limited How Impose Themselves

I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of. Calvin Trillin

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere. Calvin Trillin

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With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy. Calvin Trillin

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I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio. Calvin Trillin

Mind Television Being Radio

When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean. Calvin Trillin

Family Capitalism Clean Hands Century

You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.' Calvin Trillin

I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book. Calvin Trillin

Food Book Think Piece Read Ever

Our education system is not preparing young people for the world they will face. Campbell Brown

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We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure. Campbell Brown

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I'm trying to get my head in the game, think about the questions I wanted to ask, breast milk is flying everywhere - over my notes - and I - how do you 'lean in' at that moment? What is the equivalent of that for Wolf Blitzer or Joe Scarborough? Campbell Brown

What is happening with automation and globalization, that's not going away. Campbell Brown

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There's no reason why anyone's job should become untouchable for the rest of their life. Campbell Brown

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My mom was very much the product of a very paternalistic, deep-southern culture, but also a repressed feminist. Her way of being defiant was to raise us to be rebellious ourselves - basically, the opposite of who she had to be in her own life. Campbell Brown