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" Anyone aspiring to literary greatness should read 'New Grub Street' and weep. "

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" I know as much as anyone how much her most fervent supporters want Hillary Clinton to run for president. "

" When Obama heralds another 'teachable moment,' it means he has already made an egregious rookie mistake. "

" The comptroller of New York City ought to have all the characteristics of a major corporation's CFO - quiet rigor, obsessive care for detail, incorruptible judgment, an ability to work assiduously behind the scenes with the key stakeholders. "

" In the world of screens, we're all tired of screens. That's why I think that live events have become so popular. "

" The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th. "

" Servility always curdles into rage in the end. "

" The digital explosion has been so explosive. "

" The post-presidency, as Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton have proved, is a win-win. Money, Nobels, the ability to leverage your global celebrity for any cause or hobbyhorse you wish, plus freedom to grab the mike whenever the urge takes you without any terminal repercussions. "

" One phrase I would dearly like to consign to the can is 'Out of the Box.' The thinking that told us we should invade Iraq and that house prices never decline may have been out of the box, but it put us into the ditch. We have been badly misled by people who persuaded us that they understood things we didn't. "

" Obama achieved something in his first year with health care that successive presidents have been unable to achieve. "

" Oprah's stock in trade has always been her powerful unmediated connection. She could feel your pain and empower you to talk about it. "

" Top doctors, I have come to believe, are as big a menace to your health as top money managers are to your bank account. They are almost never available to talk to. "

" Bill Clinton, talking about the need to financially empower wives and mothers in regressive countries, once remarked that women have 'the responsibility gene.' No one has that gene more markedly than his wife. "

" Glenn Beck is Rush redux - Limbaugh with liposuction, partying like it's still 1993. "

" Let's face it: innovation in the U.S. is now the province of our thriving city-states. We all know that nothing happens in Washington anymore. "

" Clinton passed his first budget without a single Republican vote in either the House or the Senate. Before it led to the longest economic expansion in U.S. history, it led to a Democratic defeat in the 1994 midterms. "

" The number one way of becoming powerful in Washington is by becoming the 'Washington Post.' "

" Politicians have always been required to be fake, but now the career havoc wrought by a stray, flying sound bite means they have to sustain their fakeness all the time. "

" 'Worshipping in private,' as Obama does, comes off as just another form of annoying elitism. "

" When Obama dispenses with that dread sobriquet 'professorial,' he does it by being, well, more professorial. "

" An enormous number of mothers in the U.S. are working double time, graveyard shifts, and more than one job just to put food on the table for their kids. "

" Magazine articles are the new books. "

" In today's gig economy, where jobs have been replaced by 'portfolios of projects,' most people find themselves doing more things less well for two-thirds of the money. "

" To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred. "

" Feminism in some ways has become quite dormant. "

" Now everyone leaking and tweeting and posting on everyone else is the acknowledged way to get ahead in the 21st century. "