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" 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. "

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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. "

Tina Brown

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Know

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" 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. "

" There are a multitude of mothers in the world who have a daughter who is stolen, or who are stolen daughters themselves. "

" Corporate communications will become a high-tech art, just as political communication is for Obama. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Voters seem to understand what a big waste of time trying to change Washington is. "

" Back in his Chicago Senate days, when he was seeking greater black credibility, Obama was happy enough to attend the Reverend Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ. "

" The women of Afghanistan, left behind as their men fought, did what the women of World War II did - used their wits and resourcefulness to preserve some semblance of civilization. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" No one I know has a job anymore. They've got gigs. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" More Brazilian women earn Ph.D.s every year than do men. "

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

" I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting. "

" It's almost as if Putin is brilliant, really - he's outfoxing Obama all the time. "

" Schwarzenegger is big, he's noisy, he's larger than life, and he's earned the credibility to be cast for the role of America's Green superhero. "

" With so many part-time people on - and not on - the job, corporate America has started to feel like it's on a permanent maternity leave. Colleagues are an amorphous, free-floating army of rotating waifs whose voicemails are clogged with plaintive requests from their own offices for missing information. "

" 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. "

Tina Brown

Best

Better

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

" Some weddings take longer to plan than others. "

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