We really need camps for adults. None of the serious stuff. … I think we have a fun deficit in America.
Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state, in a speech to the American Camp Association of New York and New Jersey’s Tri-State CAMP Conference.
The video shows the vehicle entering the White House complex at a speed of approximately one to two miles per hour, and pushing aside a plastic barrel.
Secret Service director Joseph P. Clancy in prepared remarks to lawmakers claiming that news accounts of two agents crashing a car into a White House gate earlier this month were exaggerated.
I am more tech-savvy than you suggested. I do not have the generation-one iPod. I have some very up-to-date fancy gadgets, I want you to know.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in an email to a Wall Street Journal reporter after a story noted he an “older-model” iPod and a single-monitor, rarely used desktop computer in his Capitol office.
It would be transformative if everybody voted. That would counteract money more than anything.
President Barack Obama suggesting that mandatory voting could be a good idea. Less than 37 percent of eligible voters actually voted in the 2014 midterm elections. At least 26 countries, including Australia and Belgium, have compulsory voting.
I’m sorry I can’t be there to share a Guinness or two, or maybe even three.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, whose comments were rebuffed by Enda Kenny, the Irish prime minister, for encouraging the perception that Irish culture is tied to drinking copious amounts of alcohol.
Politicians used to be taught ‘don’t write if you can say it, don’t say it if you can nod.’ ‘Don’t email it’ is the updated version, and a very smart way to avoid embarrassment and possibly jail.
John Feehery, a Republican strategist, quoted in an article about the handful of other U.S. senators who don’t (or very rarely) email.
The only thing I would like is to go out one day, without being recognized, and go to a pizzeria for a pizza.
Pope Francis, 78, who said he feels his pontificate will be brief, perhaps four or five years, or even two or three. Two years have already passed.
A box of cookies is not a political statement.
Anna Maria Chavez, CEO of Girl Scouts of the USA, denying allegations that the organization has a relationship with Planned Parenthood and is promoting abortion.
Decision-making power over the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama, and over the end or survival of this lineage, resides in the central government of China.
Zhu Weiqun, a Communist Party official who has long dealt with Tibetan issues. Tensions have ignited over what will happen when the exiled aging 14th Dalai Lama dies, and who will succeed him as the Tibetan Buddhism leader.
Spies gonna spy.
Steven Bellovin, former chief technologist for the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, in response to revelations that researchers with the CIA worked on breaking the security of Apple iPhones and iPads for years. Bellovin is now a professor at Columbia University.
I don’t email. … I’ve never sent one. I don’t know what that makes me.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC, in response to a question about whether he has a private email address. NBC’s Meet the Press was discussing Hillary Clinton’s controversial use of a private email address for official State Department business. View the clip here.
… there is probably another side to all of these stories.
Ferguson Mayor James Knowles III in response to the Justice Department’s scathing report highlighting a pattern of abuse and racial discrimination by the city’s police and courts.
[He’s] an unrelenting libertarian. So am I.
Michael Hayden, former NSA director. He was immediately laughed at and booed by his CPAC audience last Friday.
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