Many good people serve in Congress. They are patriotic, hard-working, and devoted to the public good as they see it, but the institutional and cultural impediments to change frustrate the intentions of these well-meaning people as rarely before.


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Donald Trump has a mantra of despair, of loss. He says we don't have victories anymore. We used ...
EVAN OSNOS
For my book, 'Age of Ambition,' I spent time documenting, among other things, the trials of ...
EVAN OSNOS
Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that co...
EVAN PARKER
People are fans of Dunkin' Donuts. They have a relationship with the company, they go there ever...
EVAN WILLIAMS
At the Olympics in China, every color was represented... and that was just the drinking water.
EVAN SAYET
There was a docudrama that was made, called 'The Death Of A Princess,' which was about a tru...
EVAN OSNOS
The essence of conversation is not which media format we choose to talk to each other with, so we do...
EVAN SPIEGEL
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis s...
EVAN ESAR
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
EVAN ESAR
It's improved my physical strength, and I'm getting a lot better. There's not as much frustration.
EVAN ANDERSON
I didn't know much about it. Actually, I didn't know anything. My grade school coach, Alden Dahl, he...
EVAN ANDERSON
I've got a 6-4 cousin, but that's about it.
EVAN ANDERSON
Yes, it's not many people from there.
EVAN ANDERSON
Snapchat changed that perception of deleting something as bad. Online, typically you delete somethin...
EVAN SPIEGEL
Online one day, you log in, and you realise, 'This is not me.' Everything you're posting...
EVAN SPIEGEL
See, to me, rock'n'roll doesn't have any point. It's just fun. It has a million diff...
EVAN DANDO
There are lots of different ideas, lots of different opinions about the First Amendment Defense Act ...
EVAN MCMULLIN
The fact that radio is so hopeless at delivering data makes it an uncluttered medium, offering the b...
EVAN DAVIS
Although being economics editor sounds impressive, it does not mean I actually edit anything. It mai...
EVAN DAVIS
Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it
EVAN ESAR
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
EVAN ESAR
Many a man who falls in love with a dimple make the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
EVAN ESAR
It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all ov...
EVAN ESAR
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and de...
EVAN ESAR
The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.
EVAN ESAR
Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.
EVAN ESAR
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
EVAN ESAR
Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.
EVAN ESAR
Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.
EVAN ESAR
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow.
EVAN ESAR
A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.
EVAN ESAR
A husband is like a fire, he goes out when unattended.
EVAN ESAR
Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.
EVAN DAVIS
Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.
EVAN DAVIS
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional ...
EVAN ESAR