David Quotes

And he wishes, in the cold quiet of his archer's heart, that he himself could feel the intensity of their reconciliations as strongly as he feels that of their battles.

I know I never work in whatever gets called an office, e.g., a school office I use only for meeting students and storing books I know I'm not going to read anytime soon.

I perhaps could have been somewhat better. One of the interesting things about playing competitive sports as a child is that you confront your own limitations rather starkly at a certain point.

I tend to think of fiction as being mainly about characters and human beings and inner experience, whereas essays can be much more expository and didactic and more about subjects or ideas.

Not having a passport makes me very blasé about what appears in foreign periodicals since I know I'll never see it.

There's a weird kind of paradox that the more expensive the vacation is, the more potentially anxiety-producing it is.

My personal belief is that because technology and economic logic has gotten so sophisticated, cruelties can be perpetrated now that would have been unimaginable two or three hundred years ago.

No ancient story, not even Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, has remained as popular through the course of time. The story of Rama appears as old as civilization and has a fresh appeal for every generation.

For those of you haven't read the book, it's being published tomorrow

What we are going to end up with here is two nations. That will create real resentment in the workforce.

Now he's miserable and depressed.

[In politics,] when there is no reason to speak, there is a reason not to speak.

One of the things we're all going to have to discover, establishment is just an abusive term for institutions. It's institutions that keep us free.

The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party.

People who want to wage cultural wars ought to keep in mind that cultural views often don't move at all for a very long time, but when they move they can move very fast.

Donald Trump is not supposed to save jobs one by one. He's supposed to build a sound macro economy in which private enterprises create jobs.

Look, the media are trapped by changes in the technology and business of their industry.

My view on candidates on money is unless it's proven that the donor stole the money, the campaign keeps the money.

People who watch a lot of Fox come away knowing a lot less about important world events.

Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity.

There is no right to work in a think tank, and these are very privileged positions.

People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment.

Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.

Donald Trump's big goal is to become the richest man in the world, abusing the powers of the presidency.

Venezuela has gone from being a democratic country 15 years ago to being totally not a democracy today. Usually that de-democratization doesn't take the form of a heavy handed police state.

Donald Trump doesn't believe in much, doesn't want to do much.

While there is an attempt by the Trump people to say that California isn't really America. California certainly seems like America to me.

As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.

One of the questions I often get asked is, "Were you surprised that Trump won?" I always answer the same way: "I was surprised, I am surprised and I will never stop being surprised."

In America, you will see in area after area, media under pressure, businesses under pressure not to criticize Donald Trump lest he reduce their stock value with an angry tweet.

Journalists have to do their job. And journalists have to resist emotionalism. You have to keep your cool and to continue to do your job until you're prevented.

Canada has a real civil service, which the United States doesn't have, an independent civil service. Canada also has a stronger federal system.

The habit of going to your congressman's town hall and asking questions, that's powerful in a way that shouting slogans or getting arrested is not, that is completely counterproductive.

Democracy is not about protests. Democracy is about meetings.

So long as Donald Trump is powerful and popular, Fox News is going to achieve an advertising bonanza unheard of in the era of modern cable, because people will pay them to talk to the president.

The monster has escaped Elba!" "The tyrant has landed at Cannes!" "Bonaparte meets the troops." "Napoleon approaches Paris." "His Imperial Majesty has entered the capital.

The five million people who watch cable news are the political nation, the people who really care.

One can shape history as much through the facts one omits as through the facts one includes.

[democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged the Vietnam War after the Democrats gave up.

Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.

The Iraq fight itself is probably going to go very, very fast. The shooting should be over within just a very few days from when it starts.

What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance.

Think tanks do have points of view, and they are absolutely entitled to defend them.

Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon.

A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.

America under 30 is a more non-whites place than America over 60. And we know that non-whites and whites vote differently.

My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill.

A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.

Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.

And that is how we intend to destroy the enemy!" The superior shakes his head wearily. "Young man, the Soviets are our adversary. The Navy is the enemy.