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" Obama fans become more and more glum that he keeps flubbing the very role he was expected to be so good at: Therapist to the nation. The Great Comforter. "

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" I keep thinking about how terrifyingly vulnerable women are in so many countries. "

" What is new is the multiplying reach and volume of the Internet, concentrating the toxicity of destructive emotions and circulating them in the political bloodstream with unparalleled velocity. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Obama's great asset has always been an ability to maintain his air of authority without being baritone about it. He can be boring, but he is never ridiculous or pompous. "

" The British Isles are awash with the choice of beautiful historic churches, abbeys, and cathedrals where one king or another has tied the knot and bestowed a royal precedent. "

" Obama, for all his brilliance, has no real, felt understanding of management structures or of business. "

" When George W. Bush hit the campaign trail in 2000, the precious possession he brought with him from home was his personal feather pillow. The theme of the Bush years was obliviousness. He was famously unavailable for debate and dialogue. He was deaf to countervailing voices. He hit the sack early and always got a good night's sleep. "

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

" Editorial outfits are now advertising agencies. "

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

" I don't actually go to newsstands anymore. "

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

" Washington's Alfalfa Club dinner is a populist's nightmare. "

" Give Obama a script he has made his own, and he is the motivational speaker to end all speakers. Tony Robbins cloned with Honest Abe. "

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

" It's so thrilling to be intimidated. "

" I think that big, sort of theatrical relaunches tend to set you up for failure and hype. "

" Obamacare is the wildly complex Rube Goldberg contraption it is because getting the legislation through Congress required so many political tradeoffs and so many unavoidable deals with so many vested interests. But that's no excuse. "

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

" Until 1869, when they were banned, debtors' prisons were the great incinerators of British reputations. Those who were unable to pay their bills were jailed until their creditors were paid - an unlikely event, given that the prisoner was unable to work. "

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

" Practices such as arranged marriages and restrictions on girls attending school have deep roots, and changing them is a gradual process. Sometimes these problems seem very far away from us here in the United States. But let's remember that even into the 20th century, an American woman could not own property or vote in national elections. "

" Unlike his predecessors, Obama is not big on 'Masterpiece Theatre' nostalgia. "

" 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. "

" I think British journalists do well in America because the newspaper culture there is so strong - telling stories and presenting them readably is in their DNA. British newspapers get a terrible rap, but they are brilliant in their presentation, most of them, so full of vitality and literary wit. "

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

" Servility always curdles into rage in the end. "

" Obama can't change his cool disposition, though it would be nice if he lost the vaguely grudging air he gives off that problems of management get in the way of ideas. "

" Some weddings take longer to plan than others. "