Nancy Gibbs Quotes

I used some vivid language that, if I could take it back, I'd take it back. It's not my intention to be personally critical of the President or of anyone else.

Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.

For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.

I regret any comments I have ever made which may have cast any doubt on the personal faith of our president, Mr. Obama.

A standard criticism that is always made by the opponents of justice of the proponents of justice is that the proponents are divisive.

Billie Jean just caught me on a bad day.

Justice may be blind, but we all know that diversity in the courts, as in all aspects of society, sharpens our vision and makes us a stronger nation.

I hope I stand for antibigotry, anti-Semitism, antiracism. This is what drives me.

I understand that people have a critical mind towards my position. And receive a lot of confusion too.

Mysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory.

I focus on my work. If I let myself get distracted by the insults and slanders I wouldn't get anything substantive done.

I don't have time to think about the false controversy.

I never meant to hurt you, Isabel. Had I known what I would find when I came north, I would never have agreed to Leighton's request... That is a lie. Had I known that I would find you when I came north, I would have come years ago.

I think Rafael Benítez was an angry man. He must have been disturbed for some reason. I think you have got to cut through the venom of it and hopefully he'll reflect and understand what he said was absolutely ridiculous.

Let the shameful walls of exclusion finally come tumbling down.

I have heard your words and your disappointment, and I offer you a heart-felt apology to all who felt this was an odd or misguided casting choice.

I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.

We Americans have a chance to become someday a nation in which all racial stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically.

Someone said to me today, ‘Everybody loved PUSING DAISIES,’ I said, ‘No, they didn’t— that’s why I’m here today talking about a new show.’

Sarah: That's not fair! Jareth: You say that so often, I wonder what your basis for comparison is?

Hopefully America will forgive me.

I'm not saying we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person, or God as a thing, or whatever it is. I just said what I said, and it was wrong, or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.

I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.

First and foremost, I want people to have a good read, because I want everything I write to entertain people. There are always different layers to the story, though, so if you want to think about social justice, or sexism or racism or homophobia, or really drill down into why the world is a better place when the police force looks like the people they are policing, then that's there, too.

I think the museum should be an arena in which ideals can hash it out, fight it out, tooth and nail, for attention.