“I’ve been accused of being a liberal, which is interesting because the last time I was on doing the news in the late ’90’s, I did 218 consecutive shows about Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, and no one accused me of being a liberal then. It’s very interesting to way you can be sort of pigeonholed. I like to think of myself politically as ‘correct’…I don’t have a rooting interest other than in what happens to the country.”
- Keith Olbermann , July 28, 2006.
“What the North Koreans were waiting for was some treatment of their exalted leader with respect and a direct communication. [. . .] I outlined the specific points [concerning blocking North Korean development of nuclear weapons] and with very little equivocation, he agreed. I think it’s all roses now. [. . .] In my opinion, this was one of those perfect agreements where both sides won and got what they wanted and [where] nobody blinked, nobody had to yield.”
- Jimmy Carter , June 22, 1994.
“I’m a global citizen. Slavery: my fault. Inequality: my fault. Global environmental degradation: my fault. Population explosion: my fault. But I think I can do something about all of it . . .”
- Ted Turner
“The men have had millions of years where we’ve been running things. We’ve screwed it up hopelessly. Let’s give it to the women. [Men should be banned from public office] for 100 years in every part of the world.”
- Ted Turner
“Brits are far more intelligent and civilized than Americans.”
- Gwyneth Paltrow , February 2006.
“I love the English way, which is not as capitalistic as it is in America.”
- Gwyneth Paltrow , January 2006.
“You can’t make Socialists out of individualists — children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming, where everyone is interdependent.”
- John Dewey
“I’m under the assumption that most men are putzes.”
- Harry Smith
“Large-scale hog producers are a greater threat to the United States and U.S. democracy than Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network.”
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr