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“What the mass media–consuming public has seen from evangelical Christianity has often seemed like a play with three acts—Anger, Judgment, Insularity—restaged and reenacted over and over.”
― Tom Krattenmaker, The Evangelicals You Don't Know: Introducing the Next Generation of Christians

“Blaise rather liked the way that manners had been pared down to their essentials.”
― Gore Vidal, Hollywood

“WASHINGTON LOVES the ones who grease its gears. But history only remembers the ones who shift them,” the late Washington Post writer Marjorie Williams wrote of Baker.”
― Peter Baker, The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III

“I suppose you wish to know what I am going to say to President Roosevelt on my return,” he said. This was an understatement. Churchill was desperate to know how well his courtship of Hopkins was progressing, and what indeed he would tell the president. “Well,” Hopkins said, “I’m going to quote you one verse from that Book of Books in the truth of which Mr. Johnston’s mother and my own Scottish mother were brought up—” Hopkins dropped his voice to a near whisper and recited a passage from the Bible’s Book of Ruth: “Whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.” Then, softly, he added: “Even to the end.”
― Erik Larson, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz