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" It was Barry Diller's idea to start 'The Daily Beast,' and he has turned out to be the best partner I've ever had. There's no one better to go into the jungle with. "

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" It's actually harder than it looks to be a good pundit on the air. You've got to have stuff to say. "

" Does Obama create confusion on purpose? "

" It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it's a startling revelation. "

" I haven't spent years, like Alyse Nelson of Vital Voices, toiling for female economic empowerment on five continents. "

" Obama's stern demeanor punctuated by intermittent flashes of his wide, relaxing smile is his greatest weapon in defusing pent-up angst. "

" It's one of the biggest fibs going that American newspapers are now being forced to give up their commitment to investigative reporting. Most of them gave up long ago as their greedy managements squeezed every cent out of the bottom line and turned their newsrooms into eunuchs. "

" Perhaps Obama is often slow to nail controversies because he needs time to live inside them for a while in his head. It's unnerving for the rest of us, but even the haters, one feels, are made to think more deeply than they'd like before they return to the bickering and the games. "

" For Sarah Palin, the least experienced on the world stage, the stress of maintaining the fiction that she was qualified to be vice president sent her over the deep end almost immediately. She went off on a ferocious spending spree that might have killed a lesser woman. Katie Couric's straightforward questions unraveled her. "

" 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. "

" To people I know in the bottom income brackets, living paycheck to paycheck, the Gig Economy has been old news for years. What's new is the way it's hit the demographic that used to assume that a college degree from an elite school was the passport to job security. "

" What has happened to America's survival instincts? "

" The no-secrets era of social media makes one consider the built-in risk factor of nominating high-testosterone men to positions of power at all. Everyone is under too much scrutiny now to take a chance on candidates who suddenly blow up into a comic meme, a punchline, a ribald hashtag. "

" It is ironic that American women now need to be fortified by the inspiration of the women of the Arab Spring, who risked so much to win basic human rights. "

" American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them. "

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American

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" Your normal Wall Street big-swinging Richard has enough of a lingering moral compass to at least tell himself that his wizardry benefits somebody or something besides himself. You know, his cleverness makes capital markets more efficient. It provides credit to productive enterprise. Whatever. "

" When I took over 'The New Yorker,' there was a very, very good, smart staff in place. "

" I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print. "

" Celebrity these days is completely for sale; it's not remotely mysterious. But there's something that remains glamorous and mysterious about royalty. "

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

" One of the the great things about having had something that didn't work out is: So what? I am fine. "

" Reputation is a timely subject, now that nobody has one. "

" Everyone is someone else's catalyst for selling something these days. "

" One common denominator of super-affluent alpha men is the conviction, unchallenged every day, that the world revolves around them. "

" In all the debate about Afghanistan, we don't hear much about our obligation to the wretched lives of Afghan women. They are being treated as collateral damage as the big boys discuss geopolitical goals. "

" A trio of reputations lie at the heart of Henry James's 'The Portrait of a Lady.' "

" It's Obama's bad luck that he got elected just as the mayhem of the foreclosures, the banking collapse, and the General Motors disaster was accelerating the surge in unemployment to warp speed. "

" If a star football player can have a mythical girlfriend, why can't I have a mythical Congress? "

" The Taliban knows they have more to fear from an educated girl than an American drone. "

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