Barbara Boxer Quotes

[Journalists are] more attentive to the minute hand of history than to the hour hand.

The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.

What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

I love covering stories that have huge historic impacts.

The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

One copy of The [London] Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides.

Ancient histories provide windows to knowing current affairs.

It would be well if, in studying the past, we could always bear in mind the problems of the present

It's hard to understand a moment in history when you are in it.

My work as a whole is about excavating and shining a light on pieces of history that not only need to be seen and heard, but that can also add to the conversation about what's going on now.

A lot of things in history are timing, and it's very peculiar because in retrospect things [and] people can look more brilliant or necessary than they actually were.

I am deeply activated by a sense of history, and have been since I was a tiny child. Really feeling that these were the times, we were the people, this was the most critical time in human history. Other people thought their times were the pinnacle and this is it. This is where we really, together, make a decision of whether to evolve or perish.

You look at a clock and it tells you it's eight o'clock, you know the number of hours that has been before eight; you know the number of hours you've got after eight. You can now measure your time to see if you can get done a number of things you've got to get done. History serves the same purpose.

The White House press corps isn't there at a press briefing. It's not... They're not news gatherers there. There really isn't any media.

Given the multiple crises we are living through, investigative journalism is all the more important.

When the media gets into creating their own product and then deciding to cover it, they are becoming part of the process and, therefore, could be damaged.

All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present.

We look back to the most important moment in our history, and that becomes the dividing line between what we were and what we are now.

It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.

The media plays an essential role in our culture. It is the Fourth Estate; it's an undeniably essential instrument in the great American experiment - in keeping our democracy functional. People have very strong opinions about what that means and how information should be disseminated to a population that requires information.

The more PR buzzwords you include in your press release, the less likely I am to write you up

I cannot see the war as historians see it. Those clever fellows study all the facts and they see the war as a large thing, one of the biggest events in the legend of the man, something general, involving multitudes.

The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over which it passes. Perhaps the only real value of history lies in considering this endlessly varied play between the essence and the accidents.

The world today is the same as it always was but people know more about what's going on in the world than they used to.