209 Quotes by Tina Brown

I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn’t replace the other kind of reporting.

Hide from change and it will hide from you.

In the end, Dan Rather’s legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.

Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it’s safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments.

I’m trying to be entertaining without being mean.

A magazine – a relevant one – should be a sound, not an echo.

A reporter asked me which famous woman was my role model, a question that always leaves me stumped. I know it’s the wrong feminist answer, but most of my role models have been men. They always had the lives I wanted.

In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train.

Bill Clinton, talking about the need to financially empower wives and mothers in regressive countries, once remarked that women have ‘the responsibility gene.’ No one has that gene more markedly than his wife.