Quotes from Tina Brown

The number one way of becoming powerful in Washington is by becoming the 'Washington Post.'

Voters seem to understand what a big waste of time trying to change Washington is.

Plenty of couples snipe at each other in sometimes embarrassing ways in front of company.

Does Obama create confusion on purpose?

What has happened to America's survival instincts?

'America' is synonymous with opportunity.

Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments.

The question for Obama is how he can rein in the furies of populism while making us all feel the malefactors of great wealth are being sufficiently punished.

I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print.

Some weddings take longer to plan than others.

Perhaps it's time to stop analyzing Sarah Palin as a politician. Maybe, in her own muddled way, she is at last owning up to the fact that she has been miscast. You don't need politics anymore once you've discovered that the alchemy of celebrity has turned you into a 24-carat phenomenon.

Obama's great asset has always been an ability to maintain his air of authority without being baritone about it. He can be boring, but he is never ridiculous or pompous.

Washington's Alfalfa Club dinner is a populist's nightmare.

An enormous number of mothers in the U.S. are working double time, graveyard shifts, and more than one job just to put food on the table for their kids.

Owning news makes you important; it gives you a seat at the table.

The Taliban knows they have more to fear from an educated girl than an American drone.

To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred

Anyone aspiring to literary greatness should read 'New Grub Street' and weep.

I'm impressed with how 'Newsweek's' outstanding staff has continued to put out a lively, well-informed magazine after the departure of their tireless editor, Jon Meacham.

One common denominator of super-affluent alpha men is the conviction, unchallenged every day, that the world revolves around them.

The most frequent thing people said to me about Princess Diana when I was conducting interviews for my biography was that she could create a circle of intimacy in the middle of a crowd.

'Worshipping in private,' as Obama does, comes off as just another form of annoying elitism.

Obama can't change his cool disposition, though it would be nice if he lost the vaguely grudging air he gives off that problems of management get in the way of ideas.

The digital explosion has been so explosive.