Beinart Quotes

#1. Foreign policy is a little bit like a guy who goes to Las Vegas. If you win too much, then you eventually bet the mortgage. You start to think you are infallible.

Peter Beinart

#2. I never felt like I left, I think before anything I am a writer and that's something that I do almost everyday. So it wasnt I guess public,but I still would put out stuff on like MySpace or you know whatever social networks were poppin' at the time.

Jhene Aiko

#3. Fears don't exist in isolation. They tend to rise and fall depending on what people think they can do about them.

Peter Beinart

#4. I've heard people in the Middle East tell me that the most inspiring thing for them as people struggling against dictatorship in the Middle East is the memory of the civil rights movement.

Peter Beinart

#5. The top line is that hubris is a disease that comes from success.

Peter Beinart

#6. I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth.

Norton Juster

#7. For more than a half-century, anti-intellectualism has had a pretty good run in presidential politics. In fact, Republicans would never have gotten where they are without it.

Peter Beinart

#8. Sure, it was terrible and all, but you have to ask yourself: If the whole city was flooded, why couldn't they just swim to safety?

Zach Braff

#9. I hope Barack Obama puts another woman on the Supreme Court. And this time, I hope it's a woman with kids.

Peter Beinart

#10. Our sense of optimism, our can-do spirit, that's a source of great strength in America. But when there are no limits at all and we've gone through whole periods where we think everything has gone right, that's when disaster tends to strike.

Peter Beinart

#11. I think the tragedy of Barack Obama's presidency is that although a lot of people around the world really admire Barack Obama a lot, they don't admire the American political and economic model as much as they used to.

Peter Beinart

#12. I do have the roller skates from 'Boogie Nights.'

Heather Graham

#13. If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.

Margery Allingham

#14. I think the most inspiring thing that Americans can do for the rest of the world is struggle against the evils in our own society.

Peter Beinart

#15. My mother still made dinner. She cooked out of habit, as part of her routine, working mechanically.
But when I saw the piles of dust in the corners, it made me want to cry.

Otsuichi

#16. I think ultimately Obama's ability to rebuild America's image in the world will depend less on his personal good will and more his ability to rebuild an American economic model that seems stable and humane and dynamic.

Peter Beinart

#17. There are real threats but there's a difference between recognizing real threats and an irrational kind of apocalyptic threat.

Peter Beinart

#18. They added a cheap gift to the expensive product, and made the whole deal less attractive. Less is more in this case.

Daniel Kahneman