A biography for Mary Katharine Hamhasn’t been written yet.
“It was a long-cultivated brand of school funding and alignment with teachers unions that earned Democrats' trust on the issue of education.”
“Calm, censorious mobs are still censorious mobs.”
“For a movement meant to smash the patriarchy, Equal Pay Day shares one of its worst habits - the apparent inability to listen to actual women.”
“If you want to be paid for your job, you need to insist on being paid for your job.”
“I grew up with all liberals, so I have a huge number of friends across the spectrum.”
“Economic populism was, pre-Trump, a Midwestern Democrat's bread and butter.”
“There's always going to be sadness, and that's O.K., but I didn't want it to take over.”
“The coronavirus is serving up a rare and tragic mix of grief, drastic life changes, and economic stress to a huge swath of the country.”
“Secure Americans should be at peace with our special relationship with Britain and happy to celebrate her special occasions, no matter how odd they seem to us.”
“The way that social media is structured, you get a payout for high emotion, for clickability. And your 40-point tax plan is not emotional or clickable.”
“There are a thousand reasons for missing one of your kids' firsts. Some moms may have just been in another room making breakfast when it happened. It doesn't feel great, but it's not the end of the world.”
“I am a very social person, but not a planner.”
“I have a very serious contrarian streak.”
“Protecting free speech is literally inclusion. Not protecting free speech rights is literally exclusion of certain viewpoints.”
“I actually think I've adjusted to Trump's presidency better than a lot of people. I'd been living in weirdo land for a year before he won.”
“I loved being just one of 11 newspaper majors at my college, immersing myself in the age-old art of news-gathering.”
“There is no perfect version of life, no alternate reality in which you get to achieve everything you ever wanted in your career, travel anywhere you ever wanted, and still experience every first in your children's lives.”
“I love the Second Amendment's protections, and like many law-abiding citizens of the U.S., cherish the right it enshrines for my family to have a means to protect itself.”
“Comey clearly doesn't want Trump to be president. He has some of the same concerns about his moral character as I have and, indeed, as many of Trump's own voters had when they pulled the lever for him.”
“Letting our domestic sensitivities dictate our debate on China allows the CCP to avoid criticism where it richly deserves it, and it can have terrible consequences for free speech here.”