01c. 1960 ADIf compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics," Ford said, "then something is the matter with politics.Nancy Gibbs / quote ↗
02c. 1960 ADNixon to Clinton: "When seeking advice from people who are more experienced than you, tell them what you plan to do first, and then ask for their reaction. Don't ask for their advice, and then ignore it. That way you save on bruised feelings.Nancy Gibbs / quote ↗
03c. 1960 ADLydon Johnson realized he really was President, that his identity had changed by President Kennedy's shocking death, when aides who had been like family to him minutes before, stood in his presence on Air Force One.Nancy Gibbs / quote ↗
04c. 1960 ADLyndon Johnson realized he really was President, that his identity had changed by President Kennedy's shocking death, when aides who had been like family to him minutes before, stood in his presence on Air Force One.Nancy Gibbs / quote ↗
05c. 1960 ADFor the truly faithful no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt no miracle is sufficient.Nancy Gibbs / quote ↗
06c. 1960 ADObama was elected on a slogan of hope and change because both were in short supply: the military exhausted by two wars, the banks failing their public trust, the U.S. Congress a comedy of dysfunction, and a federal government that seemed designed to idle on the sidelines.Nancy Gibbs / quote ↗
07c. 1960 ADModesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.Nancy Gibbs / quote ↗
08c. 1960 ADA good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.Nancy Gibbs / quote ↗
09c. 1960 ADOn the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the four major U.S. sports leagues.Nancy Gibbs / quote ↗
10c. 1960 ADMost of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.Nancy Gibbs / quote ↗
11c. 1960 ADPour a liquid out of its container, and it changes shape, fills the space you give it. If you give children a lot of space, it may surprise you where they'll go and the shape they'll take.Nancy Gibbs / quote ↗
14c. 1960 AD'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.Nancy Gibbs / quote ↗
15c. 1960 ADThe leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease; it is complications from pregnancy. Girls under 15 are up to five times as likely to die while having children than are women in their 20s, and their babies are more likely to die as well.Nancy Gibbs / quote ↗
16c. 1960 ADEven if it wasn't always morning in America during the years of his presidency, Reagan's eagerness to insist that it was tapped into a longing among voters. They didn't want to picture themselves turning down their thermostats and buttoning up their cardigans. They wanted to strut again. Reagan opened his arms and said, 'Walk this way.'Nancy Gibbs / quote ↗
17c. 1960 ADAfter 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault.Nancy Gibbs / quote ↗
19c. 1960 ADA typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.Nancy Gibbs / quote ↗
20c. 1960 ADI've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.Nancy Gibbs / quote ↗
21c. 1960 ADSummer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.Nancy Gibbs / quote ↗
22c. 1960 ADDecision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.Nancy Gibbs / quote ↗
23c. 1960 ADIn the weeks after 9/11, out of the pain and the fear there arose also grace and gratitude, eruptions of intense kindness that occurred everywhere, a sharp resolve to just be better, bigger, to shed the nonsense, rise to the occasion.Nancy Gibbs / quote ↗
24c. 1960 ADThere are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.Nancy Gibbs / quote ↗
