"... I still have sympathy for some of the people who've fallen from grace in Washington. The feeding frenzy can be so unforgiving, especially in this day of nonstop cable news."

--

Source : Andrea Mitchell (2006). “Talking Back: To Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels”, p.120, Penguin

Andrea Mitchell

#People Quotes #Grace Quotes #News Quotes

“The sources of human problems have to do with egotism, â€˜I.â€™”
“Blaming none, disrespecting nothing is the doorway to Unity Consciousness.”
“I like being out front, doing what I do, but then I also like playing in a band too. I'd like to do stuff like I did with Deee-lite. I went out and played with them and they were the stars, that was cool.”
“Half the time I feel like I'm appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something; let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and I'm an upper.”
“Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?”
“Embracing failure is the most important trait I've developed in my career. I have tried to learn from my failures, and I believe it has made me stronger, more confident and more resilient.”
“Majorities can be wrong, majorities can overrule rights of minorities. If majorities ruled, we could still have slavery. 80% of the population once enslaved 20% of the population. While run by majority rule that is ok. That is very flawed notion of what democracy is. Democracy has to take into account several things - proportionate requirements of people, not just needs of the majority, but also needs of the minority. Majority, especially in societies where the media manipulates public opinion, can be totally wrong and evil. People have to act according to conscience and not by majority vote.”
“Someone who claims to know what happens after death is probably someone we should be suspicious of -- they might be a ghost.”

You may also like:

Alan Greenspan
Economist
Brian Williams
Editor
Chris Matthews
Commentator
Chuck Todd
Journalist
Kate Snow
Journalist
Nancy Pelosi
Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives
Rachel Maddow
Host
Savannah Guthrie
Journalist
Tom Brokaw
Journalist