[Defenders say she can easily navigate from past to future.] I would quote her husband who often said -- and it's absolutely a truism -- that people vote the future, not the past, ... Rhetorically she will invoke the halcyon days of the 1990s. The fact is she knows that people are concerned very much on the future and that she very much has to address that.


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HAROLD BRODKEY
Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamilia...
HAROLD BRODKEY
Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were le...
HAROLD BRODKEY
Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.
HAROLD BRODKEY
It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St....
HAROLD BRODKEY
Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
HAROLD BRODKEY
If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretens...
HAROLD BLOOM
If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is ...
HAROLD BLOOM
Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of...
HAROLD BLOOM
All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind...
HAROLD BLOOM
No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every c...
HAROLD BLOOM
I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, bec...
HAROLD BLOOM
I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a...
HAROLD BLOOM
Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of...
HAROLD BLOOM
I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
HAROLD BLOOM
I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.
HAROLD BLOOM
I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.
HAROLD BLOOM
What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or ...
HAROLD BLOOM
The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been in...
HAROLD BLOOM
What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that yo...
HAROLD BLOOM
In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
HAROLD BLOOM
Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, ev...
HAROLD BLOOM
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems t...
HAROLD BLOOM
What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the...
HAROLD BLOOM
Shakespeare is universal.
HAROLD BLOOM
We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profound...
HAROLD BLOOM
Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage eve...
HAROLD BLOOM
The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.
HAROLD BLOOM
Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overh...
HAROLD BLOOM
But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we h...
HAROLD BLOOM
Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
HAROLD BLOOM
So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets h...
HAROLD ACTON
Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
HAROLD KUSHNER
The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and ...
HAROLD PINTER
We do not intend to part from the Americans and we do not intend to be satellites. I am sure they do...
HAROLD MACMILLAN
A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this...
HAROLD MACMILLAN
My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel...
GALE HAROLD
I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
GALE HAROLD
You are preparing yourself for a scene, and the most important thing is to remain emotionally availa...
GALE HAROLD
You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.
GALE HAROLD
Some say that Jesus is the rock, or the anchor. I say that your friends and family are your anchor. ...
GALE HAROLD