Quotes by Nancy Gibbs

Barack Obama wants teacher service scholarships.

Sesame Streets genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.

The leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease; it is complications from pregnancy. Girls under 15 are up to five times as likely to die while having children than are women in their 20s, and their babies are more likely to die as well.

Even if it wasnt always morning in America during the years of his presidency, Reagans eagerness to insist that it was tapped into a longing among voters. They didnt want to picture themselves turning down their thermostats and buttoning up their cardigans. They wanted to strut again. Reagan opened his arms and said, Walk this way.

After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault.

Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.

A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.

Ive always found that once youre in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.

Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, theres no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.

Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.

In the weeks after 9/11, out of the pain and the fear there arose also grace and gratitude, eruptions of intense kindness that occurred everywhere, a sharp resolve to just be better, bigger, to shed the nonsense, rise to the occasion.

There are many things that matter much more than an editors gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.

Right now, doctors can test for about 2,500 medical conditions, but they only can treat about 500 of those. So what do you do with the knowledge about the others?

The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someones deeply held beliefs.

Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.

The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space its through time.

In design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own.

The Reverend Jeremiah Wright would baptize Obama, perform his marriage to Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, baptize their daughters, and draw him into the raucous, restless family of faith that Obama had never known before.

Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imaginations dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul.

Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide.