Frank Rich quote: "It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't."

Someday we'll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing...
FRANK RICH

There have been at least three other cases in which federal agencies have succeeded in placing fake ...
FRANK RICH

No one is better placed or more philosophically suited than Obama to construct the new counter narra...
FRANK RICH

'Up in the Air' may be a glossy production sprinkled with laughter and sex, but it captures ...
FRANK RICH

Feckless as it was for Bush to ask Americans to go shopping after 9/11, we all too enthusiastically ...
FRANK RICH

In that sense, when a Bush or a Gore, or whomever, goes on David Letterman, that's the news, too...
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History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return.
FRANK RICH

The cruel ambush of 9/11 supposedly 'changed everything,' slapping us back to reality. Yet w...
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Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the...
FRANK RICH

In the bubble decade, making money as an end in itself boomed as a calling among students at elite u...
FRANK RICH

[Regarding] The Swift Boating of Cindy Sheehan ... meet with folks out in the heartland and hear wha...
FRANK RICH

Bring Back Warren Harding
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My particular historical vantage point is a product of my upbringing as that odd duck, a native Wash...
FRANK RICH

Looking back at my high school years, I'm struck by how slowly history can move.
FRANK RICH

The religio-hucksterism surrounding the Schiavo case makes DeMille's Hollywood crusades look like am...
FRANK RICH

This play is a searing inside account of what white racism does to its victims, ... and it floats on...
FRANK RICH

You know the cliche that politics is Hollywood for ugly people, ... Political conventions are sort o...
FRANK RICH

In between, he had done Pia Zadora's act in Vegas,
FRANK RICH

Anything But An Apologist for the Lefties and All of Their Causes
FRANK RICH

always on tap, night and day, weekdays and weekends, to laugh, to applaud, to love.
FRANK RICH

Falluja Floods the Superdome
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Blowhard and Snake-Oil Salesman
FRANK RICH

[Nation editor Katrina van den Heuvel told me that the failure to adequately cover the Downing Stree...
FRANK RICH

While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delig...
FRANK RICH

As America knows, Obama turned down the lucrative career path guaranteed to the first African-Americ...
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One would like to say in the aftermath of the 2008 election that everyone lived happily ever after. ...
FRANK RICH

Of course most Americans don't know how A.I.G. brought the world's financial system to near-...
FRANK RICH

In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits a...
NATHANIEL RICH

I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I...
NATHANIEL RICH

There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing...
NATHANIEL RICH

Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You...
NATHANIEL RICH

I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.
NATHANIEL RICH

I live in New Orleans, because it's the strangest city in the United States. It has the highest ...
NATHANIEL RICH

I can juggle, not well... I can balance a broom on my chin. I can do very simple carny tricks, a lit...
RICH SOMMER

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
ADRIENNE RICH

Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked calculation.
RICH LOWRY

I went to Cal Arts. I went to art school.
RICH MOORE

It's an established fact. Some women can't stand being pregnant, getting big and bloated, an...
RICH COHEN

Not too many people are - were as good as Bob Hope. George Burns was great at thinking, you know, on...
RICH LITTLE

I think a guy who's had just the right amount of booze can sing the blues a hell of a lot better...
CHARLIE RICH

That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so ...
ADAM RICH

The girls are 4-0 right now, which is better than where I thought we would be right now. Kara gets a...
AARON RICH

Kara is a competitor and is very talented and is only a sophomore. We used (Tuesday) as a workout fo...
AARON RICH

My dad created this out of thin air. It amazes me every day, every meet I go to, people mention my d...
AARON RICH

When I was running in high school, it was more difficult to locate college coaches, hard for high sc...
AARON RICH

It's all data base-driven, ... Once all the runners are entered into the data base, it becomes a sim...
AARON RICH

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disori...
ADRIENNE RICH

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.
ADRIENNE RICH

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her
ADRIENNE RICH

Lying is done with words and also with silence.
ADRIENNE RICH

A year, ten years from now, I'll remember this; not why, only that we were here like this, together.
ADRIENNE RICH

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news
ADRIENNE RICH

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real eve...
ADRIENNE RICH

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most pote...
ADRIENNE RICH

No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow...
ADRIENNE RICH

I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and h...
ADAM RICH

I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?
ADAM RICH

I really didn't think about song writing.
ADAM RICH

Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a m...
ADAM RICH

Everything is completely democratic in this band so far and that is the way that we would like to ke...
ADAM RICH

Being on Ozzfest has been a great way for us to break out and show metal fans that we have a heavy s...
ADAM RICH

Being a new band, I just can't think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock cr...
ADAM RICH

As far as I can see there are no problems with people in our band as far as the relationships go any...
ADAM RICH

Actually, we got signed in November of 2000 with Dreamworks which is the most amazing label. We have...
ADAM RICH

A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off.
ADAM RICH

We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The...
ADRIENNE RICH

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the sufferin...
ADRIENNE RICH

The moment of change is the only poem.
ADRIENNE RICH

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
ADRIENNE RICH

No person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There ...
ADRIENNE RICH

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine...
ADRIENNE RICH

The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corres...
ADRIENNE RICH

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real event...
ADRIENNE RICH

In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a p...
ADRIENNE RICH

We might hypothetically possess ourselves of every technological resource on the North American cont...
ADRIENNE RICH

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to the...
ADRIENNE RICH

As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-sufferin...
ADRIENNE RICH

Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
RICH KULAWIEC

Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!
ADRIENNE RICH

We didn't get great goals. We just scored no-fear goals. Heart goals.
RICH PILON

How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
ADRIENNE RICH

The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
ADRIENNE RICH

The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedne...
ADRIENNE RICH

I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
RICH COOK

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for yo...
ADRIENNE RICH

I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed,...
BUDDY RICH

When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the ...
RICH LOWRY

This new generation of animators was trained in CG. They know all the fundamentals of any 2D animato...
RICH MOORE

But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn a...
BUDDY RICH

It feels like there's something for everyone in video games. It's not just a toy for a certa...
RICH MOORE

The person who should really write an appreciation of the late great Dom DeLuise is Burt Reynolds, w...
RICH COHEN

But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.
BUDDY RICH

Writing a nonfiction story is like cracking a safe. It seems impossible at the beginning, but once y...
RICH COHEN

Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for h...
RICH LITTLE

The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of ...
ADRIENNE RICH

Your future is only as bright as your mind is open.
RICH WILKINS

If you don't have anything nice to say... dead silence creates a lot awkwardness.
JEFF RICH

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, di...
ADRIENNE RICH

But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer...
BUDDY RICH

When I was young, I was on a real hot streak with 'Crazy Climber.' There was a good three-we...
RICH MOORE

I loved the Scarecrow and the Tin Man and the Lion and you could kind of see the actors' faces i...
RICH MOORE

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
ADRIENNE RICH

I always thought that Mario was kind of the bad guy - because if you knew about the game, there was ...
RICH MOORE

I read the Bible when I was 12 while studying for my bar mitzvah. I was also reading a lot of Dilber...
SIMON RICH

The Toothbrush mustache was first introduced in Germany by Americans, who turned up with it at the e...
RICH COHEN

Most mustaches lie waiting for some Clark Gable or Tom Selleck to fix them in the mind. The greatest...
RICH COHEN

I can think of a lot better things to do with my hands than to cut them up on the rim of a drum.
BUDDY RICH

Some women can't stand being pregnant, getting big and bloated, and hauling around a giant stoma...
RICH COHEN

I remember the N64 coming out. That was a beautiful day.
RICH MOORE

The debate about the war seems pretty robust and free. Many publications, from the New Yorker to the...
RICH LOWRY

Just because you're big doesn't mean you're going to be successful. The beauty of the mo...
LEE RICH

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remai...
ADRIENNE RICH

Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn't sound like an...
BUDDY RICH

But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're...
BUDDY RICH

But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can...
BUDDY RICH

But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.
BUDDY RICH

But I've played with so many varied bands with varied musical tastes, that I feel qualified to have ...
BUDDY RICH

As far as music school goes. I walked through Berkeley one time to visit with some people I know.
BUDDY RICH

And, you know, I think the original recording of Ravel's Bolero, probably whoever played percussion ...
BUDDY RICH

And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early ...
BUDDY RICH

Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen...
BUDDY RICH

Disney is a place that I've always rooted for, and I think the audience does also because we hav...
RICH MOORE

I fell in love with this idea of an old school game character, like Donkey Kong, who looks like a ve...
RICH MOORE

If I have a rough day, and I'm angry, I'll just go into Kirk Douglas and throw over a table....
RICH LITTLE

I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just ...
BUDDY RICH

To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony ...
BUDDY RICH

I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum conte...
BUDDY RICH

Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever h...
BUDDY RICH

I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.
BUDDY RICH

Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
ADRIENNE RICH

I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until...
CHARLIE RICH

I don't know if it's the sunshine, or the fact that I actually have a job, but I do like L.A...
RICH SOMMER

I'm pretty quick to delete something off of my phone if it's become obsolete. And things lik...
RICH SOMMER

I mean, I think I liked every band I ever played in because each band was different, each band had a...
BUDDY RICH

Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn't sound lik...
BUDDY RICH

Between 'Futurama' and 'Simpsons,' I'm able to work with the voices of Michael J...
RICH MOORE

There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possess...
ADRIENNE RICH

Obviously we're happy and so forth, but we know that there's Concordia and (Nebraska) Wesleyan waiti...
RICH MCGILL

What's special is the great tradition in our program. To be in the same fraternity as Dave Gunther -...
RICH GLAS

Life itself is exponential.
JEFF RICH

Occasionally when you get these dramatic cold snaps, you have these delays. It's not wholly unusual....
RICH HOHNE

I'm surrounded by 100-year-old mansions that are landmark-stature compared to other states.
RICH GARDNER

The Toothbrush mustache is the most powerful configuration of facial hair the world has ever known. ...
RICH COHEN

But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you...
BUDDY RICH

We got all the guys committed and we got the jelly doughnut in Corey Peters.
RICH BROOKS

I sincerely believe that this is the last chance to keep this island community, older than the natio...
CHRIS RICH

[Rich says they came up with an ingenious way to resolve the family's plight and help real-life hurr...
CHRIS RICH

He was very fair with me,
CHRIS RICH

It's stuff I've collected or purchased at auctions,
CHRIS RICH

I consider this group of trainers our peers in sports medicine, ... because they are on the front li...
CHRIS RICH

I think it's a fallacy that the harder you practice the better you get.
BUDDY RICH

Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.
RICH LOWRY

[Rodriguez said Wofford's wishbone also has elements of a spread offense and often relies on the rev...
RICH RODRIGUEZ

It has to be mandatory.
RICH ROBERTS

Gaming has been a great way to get to know people. That's part of what I love about games, that ...
RICH SOMMER

It'll be onward and upward for the Fed's tightening cycle.
RICH YAMARONE

It'll be onward and upward for the Fed's tightening cycle,
RICH YAMARONE

I think this was a very big win. Vermont is a team that we always point to as a big game. We haven't...
RICH CONOVER

A good movie makes the audience feel like they've journeyed with the characters.
RICH MOORE

The quarterback position is such a defenseless position when his feet are on the ground and he's thr...
RICH MCKAY

Last year, we kind of picked up where we left off. We came out and beat Laurel, handing them their o...
RICH SCHNEIDER

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
RICH LITTLE

In this world of extremes, we can only love too little.
RICH CANNARELLA

Look it up. I don't think I've ever hit cleanup.
RICH AURILIA

He's kind of sneaky. He throws across his body a little bit. The first time you face him, you've got...
RICH AURILIA

The one thing I wish would have happened was we would have scored one more run for Milton. I wish he...
RICH AURILIA

We got some walks and some hits with runners in scoring position, ... Those are the little things yo...
RICH AURILIA

You know how it was for me earlier in the season [when starts were scarce]. I don't care where I hit...
RICH AURILIA

He could have Babe Ruth hitting behind him, ... and they'd still walk him.
RICH AURILIA

In a weird way, it's good and bad being an insurance policy. Do I like to do it? No, because I know ...
RICH AURILIA

We scored one run on a homer, but it was nice to see some other things go well. We had a couple guys...
RICH AURILIA

You really have nothing to lose in that situation. I choked up a little bit, especially with two str...
RICH AURILIA

At that point, we had left 10 guys on base. We had had a couple opportunities, but we didn't capital...
RICH AURILIA

At the beginning of the year we couldn't get the big hit. Now, we've gotten some big hits and it's f...
RICH ANDERSON

(Azevedo) didn't have his stuff today but he just kept kind of competing.
RICH ANDERSON

I think the last two games ? we lost by one run ? they didn't know how to get over the hump. They ge...
RICH ANDERSON

Our guys are competing now, but we just need to get over the hump. We still need to play a bit clean...
RICH ANDERSON

We understand our underdog role and hopefully our players will relish the fact that other schools in...
RICH ANDERSON

Anything higher would be quite a stretch in my mind. Essex has a fantastic track record, and most ob...
RICH ANDERSON

We know we're the underdogs, we have a young team. We have to come out and play. We're not going to ...
RICH ANDERSON

We haven't had any steam all year. That was our best performance by far all season. All year long we...
RICH ANDERSON

Ryan gets a little upset when he doesn't get a hit. He's really aggressive. He'll simmer down though...
RICH ANDERSON

It was a wild game with a ton of distractions, but our guys really hung in there and competed. The w...
RICH ANDERSON

My mom was cooking all the time. I was always around great food, and so was Sandy. Our mothers could...
RICH ALLISON

So we made up our own recipe and people loved it. We would grill chicken and just serve it on the si...
RICH ALLISON

We have chafing dishes, set up tables and eat buffet style. We're a little crazy.
RICH ALLISON

We were coming up on Penn State season.
RICH ALLISON

We wanted to do something casual.
RICH ALLISON

So far, we've had a lot of success pitching, offensively, defensively, and as a team. Hopefully, we'...
RICH ALDAY

I'm real excited and real happy for the kids. It was a great success and a great series for us.
RICH ALDAY

It's always nice to score early, but any time you score early sometimes it's not enough. We've score...
RICH ALDAY

We swung the bats really well. Offensively we were pretty good.
RICH ALDAY

We got lucky, as he all of a sudden matured. He's got a great upside.
RICH ALDAY

He swung the bat really well. He's been struggling a little bit with his swing this past weekend. He...
RICH ALDAY

A guy in Triple-A is one step up, so if one of my players gets a base hit off a guy the big leagues ...
RICH ALDAY

This weekend is going to be big for us. It helps us if we win games like today.
RICH ALDAY

He threw a lot of strikes and was ahead in the count a lot. Throwing the first strike is always real...
RICH ALDAY

We had no way of identifying where the problem occurred. We didn't have very good information, and u...
RICH ACKERMANN

We use it for monitoring individual applications, enabling us to improve problem resolution for user...
RICH ACKERMANN

It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't.

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It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't.

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