John Nichols Quotations

The plane will not make a difference. It is an effort to defy the laws of physics as well as the laws of nations, and it's going to fail on both accounts.

We're not doctors. We have to tell people that all the time. They look at us when we walk in the door and they assume we know everything.

Last year when I took this course, we had to cover the front of our masks with duct tape,

On or about July 12, 2003, Libby flew with the Vice President and others to and from Norfolk, Virginia on Air Force Two. On his return trip, Libby discussed with other officials aboard the plane what Libby should say in response to certain pending media inquiries, including questions from Time reporter Matthew Cooper.

If a Cuban has the choice of seeing old exiles shout at each other or to watch CNN or HBO, what do you think they are going to do?

From the science point of view, the thing I get worried about is the paucity of information, the fact that we are dealing with something that is evolving very rapidly. We may not have the time to do the long-standing research,

The pager can go off any time of the day or night.

Keeping college affordable is very important to us. We are going out of our way not to reduce services or raise costs.

Our media seem to be waiting for Fitzgerald to do all the work. What if during Watergate we left things up to Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox?

Just because the plane's moving around doesn't change the fact that (the signal) is broadcast on a frequency. ... The Cubans figure out what frequency it's on; they jam it.

To me, that's the smoking gun, the flashing light, the thing I'd like to explore more.

To a greater extent than the Bush administration, the media was responsible for creating the fantasy that Iraq posed an imminent threat to the United States,

This weekend's probably going to have a lot of respiratory calls because you had warm temperatures and it dropped really quickly to cold temperatures. That always seems to trigger everybody's breathing difficulties.

The vice president needed to come on television and humanize himself a little bit to say that it was the worst day of his life and that he really was deeply concerned. I am not sure this is going to be enough, though. I suspect there will continue to be a lot of pressure for him to answer more questions.

decisions behind closed doors, in our name, without our consent.

That's why all of us got into it in the very end.

They are playing the media brilliantly and are on the top of their games. This administration knows the media, and they're going to get away with this. But I hope I'm wrong.

It's kind of a unique experience to work out here.

It's a chance for those with Parkinson's to smile for one evening, ... They can see that others care about them and this disease.

They can update as many times as they like until they feel satisfied with it.

I'm not suggesting that we are back in the '30s or the '50s. But each year, you lose a little bit more. It is, gradually, a greater and greater problem.

Before this, student services was in the administration building and financial aid was in the academic building. Everything was scattered across campus.

Hong Kong and southern China are in an area where everything comes together. It's like the perfect storm -- animals, the virus, population density.

This is a huge database. Every paper ever submitted becomes part of the database.

All we can tell them is you look like you're having serious signs and symptoms. We're going to treat you like you're having a heart attack because, obviously, that's what we're most concerned about.

The free market would do us a lot of good; we don't have a free market. We have lost our free market to corporatists, who have come in to take their money and leave.