Michael Tomasky famous quotes

07-17-2025

I tend to cut David Brooks more slack than most people I know do, and I do it for one main reason. He can write. He's the best writer on that page, and I'd usually rather read him than others on that page I'm more likely to agree with.
-- Michael Tomasky

#Writing #Cutting #People
John McCain is a liar and flip-flopper and panderer and bully and whiner. And it seems to be working.
-- Michael Tomasky

#Liars #Bully #Flip
Hillary Clinton really transformed herself into a national security expert. She decided to join the Senate Armed Services Committee, and she became a real military wonk. She was famous for going to every subcommittee hearing and methodically questioning every lieutenant colonel from the Pentagon about defense procurement or selective service benefits. So that's where she really began to carve out and hone this reputation as a hawk that I think has followed her through the secretary of state years and then into the presidential campaign.
-- Michael Tomasky

#Real #Military #Thinking

If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
Cut Chemist and DJ Shadow are going to blow your funky mind!
God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.

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