Quotes About Fineman

#1. If you look at the top ten most reliable cars, as reported by thousands of people in all kinds of independent testing, there's only one American car in the top ten. It's the Buick.

Howard Fineman

#2. Asked at the hearing why she hadn't pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn't know, about domestic terrorist threats, Rice acted as though the question was an odd one: it wasn't her job. Well, in retrospect, it was and now certainly is.

Howard Fineman

#3. The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country.

Howard Fineman

#4. Gov. Scott Walker, a Tea Party-tinged Republican, is the advance guard of a new GOP push to dismantle public-sector unions as an electoral force.

Howard Fineman

#5. When Americans invade Iraq, Bush says, we will be greeted as liberators by the Iraqi people, proving that taking out Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do.

Howard Fineman

#6. Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? ... He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage ...

Robert Olmstead

#7. Remember the picture of the president in the classroom, being told of the attack by chief of staff Andy Card? The American people thought they were seeing a man suddenly thrust into a grave challenge no one could have anticipated.

Howard Fineman

#8. The first and most practical step in getting what one wants in this world is wanting it. One would think that the next step would be expressing what one wants. But it almost never is. It generally consists in wanting it still harder.

Gerald Stanley Lee

#9. He's an Old Testament guy. He believes in punishment, a God of vengeance and hatred. He's a hater himself.

Phil Harvey

#10. Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.

Edward Young

#11. I guess there are a lot of people who don't know the right thing to say. You don't notice them so much because they pretend they do.

Cath Crowley

#12. Do you see Jesus Christ as the son of God and believe in him as the route to salvation and eternal life?

Howard Fineman

#13. I know that from the days of Watergate ... the notion of two sources on a story has become the popular dogma about how you confirm something. And there is a lot of truth to that, but there are all kinds of ways to check to the extent that you can, a story that you get.

Howard Fineman

#14. As Walter Cronkite would say, that's the way it is.

Howard Fineman

#15. By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one?

Howard Fineman

#16. I didn't have a teenage or early-20s experience that was free and without worry. I missed the screw-everything, have-a-good-time phase.

Sandra Bullock

#17. And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#18. It's hard to know now who, if anyone, in the media has any credibility.

Howard Fineman

#19. I think of the quietness of Julian's voice as he said I love you, the steadiness of his rib cage rising and falling against my back, as we sleep.
I love you, Julian. But the words don't come.

Lauren Oliver

#20. Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction.

Heinrich Heine

#21. In the ever accelerating world of the Internet, e-campaigning has gone from a novelty to a necessity in less than a year. With increasing sophistication and urgency, campaigns are using the Web as a bulletin board, advertising medium and organizing tool.

Howard Fineman

#22. There's a very healthy tradition in America of skepticism of centralized power. If we ever lose the skepticism of centralized power, we'll lose the essence of the country.

Howard Fineman

#23. I've always felt happy at Newcastle. But things have gone a bit differently for me since we got a new manager.

Robert Laurent

#24. Start with a brand new good-morning. To your husband or your wife. To your kids. To those you work with - and don't work with. What's the harm? How difficult is it? And it isn't, and you know it. So do it.

Carew Papritz

#25. A political party is dying before our eyes-and I don't mean the Democrats. I'm talking about the mainstream media, which is being destroyed by the opposition.

Howard Fineman

#26. A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.

Howard Fineman

#27. If we are lucky, and George W. Bush is right, we are about to witness the War of the Happy Iraqis.

Howard Fineman

#28. God himself is increasing and progressing in knowledge, power, and dominion, and will do so, worlds without end.

Brigham Young

#29. Confessions are tricky. Many times,as you're confessing something to another person, you discover some new, valuable lesson about yourself.

Karrine Steffans

#30. The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.

Howard Fineman