66 Quotes by Charles M. Blow

Great leadership isn’t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they galvanize the wills of the willing; they draw clarity from the spigot of chaos.

I know that life, I've done all those things, and I can still tell you that just being you is perfectly fine.

While the word bisexual was technically correct, I would only slowly come to use it to refer to myself in part because of the derisive connotations. But, in addition, it would seem to me woefully inadequate and impressionistically inaccurate.

An illustration is a visual editorial - its just as nuanced. Everything that goes into it is a call you make: every color, every line weight, every angle.

The internet is ruthless. And people are very, very happy to let you know when they don't like something.

Look at it this way: this administration is taking unprecedented steps to make sure that the government's secrets remain private while simultaneously invading the privacy of its citizens... Many innocents must be violated so that a few guilty people can be stopped. It's a digital stop-and-frisk...

There are no 'come shoot me' clothes.

I had set about trying to make myself more polished than a country boy would be.

Elections have a way of cooling passions, especially when voters get what they want.