“Got good news and bad news for you, Mr. President. The good news is that Chief Justice John Roberts just saved your legacy and, perhaps, your presidency by writing for the Supreme Court majority to rule health care reform constitutional.” WritingCarePresidentJusticeNewsMajorityCourtSavedSupremeChiefsReformHealth CareLegacyPresidencySupreme CourtGood NewsBad NewsHealth Care ReformChief JusticeGood News And Bad News Author:Ron Fournier
“I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?” WritingYearsI CanWholePresidentMetsHundredWhole LifeHousekeepers Author:Tate Taylor
“I got on the phone with the president of my label and I said, "Obviously, I write songs in a lot of styles and play a lot of different kinds of music. We're getting toward the end of our business collaboration. If you could envision a record that you wanted to hear from me, what kind of record would it be?" It wasn't like asking him to fill an order, it was really just a conversation. For all the things I'd ever asked him, this was one thing I'd never asked, and I don't know why. So I was curious. And the thing that he was most interested in hearing was a solo record.” IfsKnowsWritingKindSaidDifferentEndsPlayWantedSongOrderPresidentRecordsOne ThingStyleConversationAskingPhonesHearingCuriousLabelsCollaborationDifferent KindsSoloDifferent Kinds Of Music Author:Ryan Adams
“Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, "I am not a crook." Jimmy Carter says, "I have lusted after women in my heart." President Reagan says, "I have just taken a urinalysis test, and I am not on dope."” ThinkingWritingHeartPresidentTakenMy HeartTestsJimmyCarterDopeCrooksPresident Reagan Author:Art Buchwald
“Any satirist writing a futuristic novel who had imagined a President Reagan during the Eisenhower years would have been accused of perpetrating a piece of crude, contemptible, adolescent, anti-American wickedness, when, in fact, he would have succeeded, as prophetic sentry, where Orwell failed.” WritingYearsHas BeensFactsPresidentNovelPiecesWickednessAccusedCrudePropheticFuturisticSatiristAnti-americanPresident Reagan Book:Conversations with Philip Roth Source: Conversations with Philip Roth