Norman Ornstein Quotes

#1. The question to be asked of all teaching is not, 'Is it new?' but 'Is it true?'

F.F. Bruce

#2. Why does it hurt when you love someone? What is it with the human heart? What was it with my heart? I wondered if there was a way to keep her in this world forever.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#3. Conservatives want smaller government. They want to focus on market-based solutions wherever one can. They want to have as little regulation as possible. But in general, they recognize that government must play an important role for a society to operate.

Norman Ornstein

#4. The best way to get your audience larger and more consistent is to be more divisive and more radical and criticize those who cater to or kowtow to other forces.

Norman Ornstein

#5. I don't believe that bureaucrats in Washington should tell someone whether they can use contraceptives or not. And I don't believe employers should tell someone whether they could have contraceptive care of not. Every woman in America should have access to contraceptives.

Mitt Romney

#6. I'd love to be the political voice of my generation, but that's not my gift.

Anita Baker

#7. She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds.

Shannon Hale

#8. What a perfect escape the return to the womb was. Better by far than Religion or Art or the South Sea Islands. It was so snug and warm there, and the feeding was automatic.

Nathanael West

#9. Radicals don't care about the institutions. They are looking for an ideological crusade. Traditions don't matter.

Norman Ornstein