"First of all, I think it’s odd that people who cover politics wouldn’t have any political views." ― Nate Silver Topic(s): Time More From Nate Silver "I’ve become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I’m actually doing and what I actually deserve." "People still don’t appreciate how ephemeral success is." "In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right." More In Time "I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims."― Timothy Radcliffe "As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests."― Gore Vidal "No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time."― Henry A. Kissinger