Quotes from Tina Brown

Public life has become so gladiatorial. Every day, another reputation bites the dust.

With so many part-time people on - and not on - the job, corporate America has started to feel like it's on a permanent maternity leave. Colleagues are an amorphous, free-floating army of rotating waifs whose voicemails are clogged with plaintive requests from their own offices for missing information.

Hillary Clinton has spent her entire career looking bug-eyed with incredulity when an interviewer asks her whatever question she most expects at that moment.

Politicians have always been required to be fake, but now the career havoc wrought by a stray, flying sound bite means they have to sustain their fakeness all the time.

In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train.

We live in a culture of destructive transparency.

It always seemed to me ironic that the McCain campaign kept referring sneeringly to Obama's meager resume - 'a mere community organizer!' - before he entered electoral politics. It was Obama's experience as a community organizer that proved such a killer app when he applied that skill to the Internet.

When I took over 'The New Yorker,' there was a very, very good, smart staff in place.

In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.

Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don't know about. If you can afford to send yourself to some foreign part, I still think that's by far the best way to break in.

No one has put in harder training to become a royal bride than the glossy-haired Kate Middleton.

Even as the whole world tries to hang on to its job, there is also this weird parallel sense - almost a covert longing - that the old corrupt structures on which that job depends needs to be, ought to be, swept away.

A trio of reputations lie at the heart of Henry James's 'The Portrait of a Lady.'

Now everyone leaking and tweeting and posting on everyone else is the acknowledged way to get ahead in the 21st century.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar turned out to be all hat and no cattle with his sorry oversight of the Minerals Management Service.

When Obama heralds another 'teachable moment,' it means he has already made an egregious rookie mistake.

In today's gig economy, where jobs have been replaced by 'portfolios of projects,' most people find themselves doing more things less well for two-thirds of the money.

Obama achieved something in his first year with health care that successive presidents have been unable to achieve.

CBS's Ed Murrow may have been over-celebrated as the principled observer for the masses, fair yet unafraid to take on the bullies.

I wish my daughter wasn't spending time thinking of Kim Kardashian or Rihanna.

I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I've been or something I've done. Or politics. It's going to what's on my mind at the moment.

Movie stars today are as greedy for additional kids as bankers are for bonuses. It's the new badge of authenticity.

If a star football player can have a mythical girlfriend, why can't I have a mythical Congress?

There is nobody more boring than the undefeated.