Quotes by Journalists

The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike. Adam Davidson

You Class Hurts Whatever Rich Corporate Rule Alike Jobs Investing Put Smaller Economy Inevitably Hiring Get Fewer Middle Middle Class Which Poor Taxation Taxing Means Less Activity Cardinal

To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs. Adam Davidson

Demanding Resource Our Bit Jobs Scarce More Put Simply Economy Attract Schools Well-Educated Providing Offer Than Just Workers Communities

The world I want to live in is a world where everybody is a bit more uncertain about their arguments and is a bit more open to other people's arguments. I think that we can engage ideas without ad hominem attacks. Adam Davidson

People World Argument Live Think Other Everybody Bit About Uncertain More Attacks Open Ideas Without Where Want Engage Ad

Serious loss brings you into one of the world's silent fraternities. Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

You World Silent Loss Serious Brings

It's hard for me to understand how poverty can be invisible to so many people, since I see it everywhere. Readers sometimes think this world is so different; on the one hand, they feel connected to the people I'm writing about, and on the other hand, they're saying their lives are a world away. Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

Saying Me People Writing World Sometimes Poverty Think Other Everywhere See About Feel Invisible Since Readers Understand How Hand So Many People Different Hard Connected Many Away Lives

It shouldn't be a matter of who deserves help or not, but of whether we want to be a country that allows its neediest to continue to need. Condemnation of individuals and their choices mutes all these other really important logistical questions about funding and budget and politics. Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

There's one thing I know for sure: When I'm most opinionated, my writing sucks. Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

Writing One Thing Know Most Sure Opinionated Sucks Thing

Illness transforms the things you most fear into the things you crave and would hold onto if you could. Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

You Fear Would Could Onto Most Hold Crave Illness Things

I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater. Agnes Smedley

Living Volcano Feel Like Person Brink

Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe. Agnes Smedley

You Everybody Secretly Russia Never Feel Safe Calls Spy Surveillance

For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian. Agnes Smedley

Events First Aid Week Worker Streets

No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial. Agnes Smedley

Today Man No-One Conceived Knows How How Far Province Artificial Far

What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again. Agnes Smedley

Fire Setting Consumed He Couple Always Up Again Ashes Them

Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys. Agnes Smedley

Strength Man Girl Took Be A Man Tried Part Boy Rode Lack Being Being A Girl Ashamed Shot Body Fights Now

For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak. Agnes Smedley

In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories. Agnes Smedley

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster. Agnes Smedley

Family Class Mother Father Affection Considered Sign Weakness Would Kissing Like Disaster Caught Been Disgrace Show Shown

More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international. Agnes Smedley

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only. Agnes Smedley

Imagination Russia Only Read Much Desire

So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also. Agnes Smedley

The haters out there, I don't really pay attention to them, because I feel like I'm doing the best I can, and I just don't want that negativity into my heart and into my mind. Ainsley Earhardt

Best Heart Mind Haters Pay Pay Attention Negativity Out Attention Feel Like Because Doing Just Want Them Really

I encourage others to choose a career they are passionate about and can do for the rest of their lives. Ainsley Earhardt

Rest Others About Passionate Encourage Choose Lives Career

Hard work really does pay off. Ainsley Earhardt

Work Hard Work Pay Does Off Really Hard

I took so many different things away from my maternity leave. It taught me to have more compassion for other people and to see every individual as someone's child. Ainsley Earhardt