Katharine Weymouth Quotes

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.

I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.

A library implies an act of faith.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren't bad things on which to ponder a few notions.

People don't care about books. They care about ideas.

Reading is a possession, a march toward a possession.

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.

Even a conscientious person cannot reach reasonable political conclusions without trustworthy, factual information.

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one — but no one at all — can tell you what to read and when and how.

I'm quite intellectual. I read a lot and I'm very politically aware.

A library is many things. It's a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It's a place to go if you want to sit and think. But particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books. If you want to find out about something, the information is in the reference books---the dictionaries, the encyclopedias, the atlases. If you like to be told a story, the library is the place to go.

I read books and talked to people. I mean that's kind of how one learns anything. There's lots of great books out there & lots of smart people.

I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being

I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't any books in the world.

I think that one of the questions that I asked of myself in later years was to this point of the political directive.

Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading.

I spent my life in the library reading books.

Since I started as a comic person then became a musician to me it was interesting because I have this really great, interesting fanbase that's really smart and energetic and uh how could I steer them towards a medium that shaped who I was? You know, steer them toward comics. That was really the goal, to bring a lot of readers cuz they were reading a lot of comics but most of them hadn't been reading American comics, they'd be reading manga sitting on the floor of a Barnes and Noble.

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

I'm wishing every Saturday had primaries, because welcome to an amazing Sunday, where everything seems a tad bit clearer this morning.

I think that being in politics, being in leadership should be as much about listening as talking. That's how I think you can get the information and sort of pick up the nuance that will enable you to do the best possible job.

All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power.

Of course. You get everything from books.