Michelle

“As CNN broadcasts my message to millions of Americans, I realize my job isn’t to manipulate public opinion. My job is to get gatekeepers like CNN to do it for me. Once you have ink, your story becomes real. A conversation starts that didn’t exist moments before, a conversation nobody would think to have if you hadn’t started it. The public begins to accept something you created out of nothing.”
― Phil Elwood, All the Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians

“When you're young, you think you have all the answers. You're right wing or you're left runs and the other side is a bunch of idiots. You know. When you get a little older, though, you start to more and more see the grays. Now I understand that the true idiots are the ones who are certain they have the answers.”
― Harlan Coben, Missing You

“Only when information is combined with belief does it become knowledge, and only knowledge leads to action.”
― Jonathan Freedland, The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

“It isn't so easy, is it, to change who we are by changing where we are? The past has a nasty habit of following us around. I believe it's called regret.”
― Hazel Gaynor , The Last Lifeboat