Budd Margolis

“The optimal response to Covid 19 would have been measured, balancing protecting vulnerable populations with tailored health measures against the heavy toll of closing schools and businesses. Few advocated for this approach. Americans’ reflex of running to extremes and addressing complicated policy challenges with the blunt weaponry of tribal warfare—reinforced by years of muscle memory—was simply too strong to shake off.”
― William Cooper, How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System

“my mum, Brenda. I just emailed her to say that a newspaper would like to take a photo of her with Dame Helen Mirren on the set of the Thursday Murder Club film, and I assumed that was okay with her?”
― Richard Osman, We Solve Murders

“According to New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice, “The United States has less than five percent of the world’s population and nearly one-quarter of its prisoners. Astonishingly, if the 2.3 million incarcerated Americans were a state, it would be more populous than 16 other states. All told, one in three people in the United States has some type of criminal record. No other industrialized country comes close.”
― William Cooper, How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System

“Because if you don’t feel loved, it’s difficult to feel anything at all.”
― Richard Osman, We Solve Murders