“[Van Jones] you should be a racial polemicist. You should be a racial reconciler.” Quote by Mary Matalin
“"Thank You for Being Late" pinpoints 2007 as the year what he calls the, quote, great acceleration began, ushering in a dizzying and disorienting era of change - technological, economic, environmental. Dealing with that change, the challenge of our time, says Tom Friedman. He's here to explain it right now.” YearsChallengesEconomicRight NowLateEnvironmentalErasOur TimeTomsTechnologicalAcceleration Author:Mary Matalin
“want to get to the substance of the book ["Thank You for Being Late"], but it is so closely connected to this presidential election. And you also wrote a series of columns during the campaign, very tough on Donald Trump. You called him a disgusting human being and now you're calling the election a moral 9/11 only 9/11 was done to us from the outside. We did this to ourselves.” WantHumansBookDoneHuman BeingsMoralTrumpCallingLateToughElectionSeriesConnectedCampaignsSubstancePresidentialDisgustingColumnsPresidential Election Author:George Stephanopoulos
“When the prisoner is brought down from Death Row he steps from the elevator directly into a "holding" room that adjoins the witness room. There are two cells in this "holding" room, two, in case it's a double execution. They're ordinary cells, just like this one, and the prisoner spends his last night there before his execution in the morning, reading, listening to the radio, playing cards with the guards.” TwoLastsNightReadingRoomsStepsMorningCasesListeningOrdinaryRadioCardsWitnessCellsPrisonerExecutionLast NightElevatorsDeath RowPlaying Cards Author:Truman Capote
“It was the most haunting room I've ever seen. Because you know what's in it? All the leftovers, all the paraphernalia that the different condemned men had had with them in the "holding" cells.” KnowsMenDifferentLeftRoomsCellsHaunting Author:Truman Capote
“Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper.” PeopleWantHalfPaperRecognitionSnuff Author:Truman Capote
“I knew Lee Harvey Oswald, and I knew Jack Kennedy. The odds against that-one person knowing all four of those men-must be astounding.” MenPersonsKnowingFourOddsHarveyThat One PersonJack Kennedy Author:Truman Capote
“I met Lee Harvey Oswald, in Moscow just after he defected. One night I was having dinner with a friend, an Italian newspaper correspondent, and when he came by to pick me up he asked me if I'd mind going with him first to talk to a young American defector, one Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald was staying at the Metropole, an old Czarist hotel just off Kremlin Square.” IfsMindFirstsYoungNightMetsPicksDinnerNewspapersHotelStayingItalianSquaresOne NightMoscowHarveyPick MePick Me UpKremlinDefectors Author:Truman Capote
“Lee Harvey Oswald was boiling over about everything: the American ambassador; the Russians-he was mad at them because they wouldn't let him stay in Moscow. We talked to him for about half an hour, and my Italian friend didn't think the guy was worth filing a story about. Just another paranoid hysteric; the Moscow woods were rampant with those. I never thought about him again, not until many years later. Not until after the assassination when I saw his picture flashed on television.” ThinkingYearsStoriesGuyHoursHalfSawsTelevisionMadWoodsItalianParanoidAmbassadorsMoscowBoilingHarveyFilingBoiling Over Author:Truman Capote
“There was an American girl, Priscilla Johnson. She worked for U.P. in Moscow. She knew [John] Kennedy, and she met [Lee Harvey] Oswald around the same time I did. But I can tell you something else almost as curious.” I CanGirlMetsCuriousJohnsonMoscowHarveyJohn Kennedy Author:Truman Capote