More From Jon Meacham
- "Attacks on a politician’s identity – questioning Romney’s religion, say, or Obama’s birthplace – tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can’t sell himself."
- "Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt – an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there’s a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it’s really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard."
- "Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power."
More In Government
- "Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs."― Thomas Wolfe
- "Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi."― Larry Wall
- "If we become one of those societies that attack success, why not come as certain there will be a lot less success? And that’s not who we are."― Mitt Romney