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

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" It's interesting how the view from abroad can shift and remake perceptions of homegrown celebrities, the ones who are part of the gross domestic product. "

" The viral power of online media has proven how fast creative ideas can be spread and adopted, using tools like cellphones, digital cameras, micro-credit, mobile banking, Facebook, and Twitter. A perfect example? The way the Green Movement in Iran caught fire thanks to social media. "

" Magazine articles are the new books. "

" 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. "

" Some weddings take longer to plan than others. "

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

" Franklin D. Roosevelt was fortunate: He didn't take office until nearly four years after the Wall Street crash, by which time the Republicans' responsibility for the Depression was taken for granted. "

" I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I've been or something I've done. Or politics. It's going to what's on my mind at the moment. "

" By the end of 'Game Change,' one feels that the candidates' few happy moments are those when they 'lose it.' "

" I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean. "

" For a guy who believes in hope, Obama doesn't seem to be able to spread much of it around. How can he? We know too much now about the hollowness of institutions and the frailty of their leaders. "

" Public life has become so gladiatorial. Every day, another reputation bites the dust. "

" The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permission, so is courage. "

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

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

" You can get an interview with anyone overseas on the basis of being part of 'Newsweek.' It still has a great deal of impact. "

" I've always been very enamored of European newsmagazines - the 'Spiegel' kind of magazine, which has an energetic, high-low approach to news. "

" 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. "

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

" Periodically, 'The New York Times' runs a business news story lamenting how few women still make it to the top in the Wall Street boys' club. Could it be that women are choosing to be conscientious objectors in these wars of one against all? "

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

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

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

" Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments. "

" Owning news makes you important; it gives you a seat at the table. "

" The vaults of Buckingham palace are groaning with priceless, useless freebies from foreign dignitaries. "

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

" There is nothing radical about Obama except the fact of who he is. "

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

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