The president has a right to discuss his national security policies with the public. But that should be done in the light of day without endangering our sources or methods. The public has no need to know details about intelligence assets or special operations units. Such disclosures endanger those who protect us.
Peter T. King
Related The president doesn't order the military to seize political opponents. He doesn't order his ... KATHLEEN TROIA MCFARLAND Whenever we have had a need for a national security or public safety issue, Congress has always foll... JIM SENSENBRENNER The president does have very deep concerns about anything that would be inappropriately leaked that ... ARI FLEISCHER More than two years after we filed our Freedom of Information Act request, the FBI continues to with... JAMEEL JAFFER National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust a... AL FRANKEN President Bush nominated someone who has consistently opposed protecting public health and public la... CARL POPE Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT How did it come about that highly sensitive technical information was given to the Chinese? Why did ... PORTER GOSS This is to let the public see what national security is all about. Just to let the public know that ... HENRY LIU The national government has certain kinds of compelling interests that conflict with the right of th... JOHN YOO I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers... ROBERT WALPOLE It's not a priority for the government right now. You don't see the Congress or the president talkin... THOMAS KEAN We are delighted that President Clinton has agreed to address our convocation this spring. As our gr... JAMES STEINBERG The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI It is only with valid, credible, good intelligence that we are able to anticipate someone who is try... DICK DURBIN Most of the secrets the CIA has are about people, not machines and systems, so I didn't feel com... EDWARD SNOWDEN To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the Preside... THEODORE ROOSEVELT It should come as no surprise that a President who let the oil and gas industry write the country's ... DAMIEN LAVERA Obviously it's disturbing; it's just not right, ... The public should know at the same time. ... The... GEORGE PATAKI The public relies on the advice of doctors and leading researchers. The public has a right to know a... CHUCK GRASSLEY Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the pub... JAMES NATHAN MILLER President Bush has handed out some of the country's most difficult and important jobs - leadership p... HENRY A. WAXMAN To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If the president forces us to choose between his raising taxes or raiding Social Security to fund hi... JOHN KASICH The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be sup... THEODORE ROOSEVELT The President is merely the most important among a large number
of public servants. He should be s... JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be sup... THEODORE ROOSEVELT The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be sup... THEODORE ROOSEVELT He is right. The storm should be a warning to President Bush about the consequences of his climate c... TONY JUNIPER God has created the trees as the sources of food and shelter for others. He has so sensibly not give... MD. ZIAUL HAQUE To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, right or wrong - is not only unpatriot... THEODORE ROOSEVELT There are those who argue that the public celebration of festivals such as Christmas should be disco... POPE BENEDICT XVI With or without a Social Security fix, Americans don't have enough assets to retire on. There has to... FRANK KEATING [But several sources have said Kendall, Clinton's lead attorney, has voiced reservations about any d... MONICA LEWINSKY I can claim copyright only in myself, and occasionally in those who are either dead or have written ... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS There's a feeding frenzy for transparency and disclosure on Capitol Hill, and that's not a good way ... ROBERTA BASKIN USA strongly needs to keep a check on artificial intelligence and the promoters of the same. All thi... APURVA GAGLANI President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security. RANDY NEUGEBAUER Tom Ridge is a decent man and a fine public servant, but unfortunately was not given the leeway or r... CHARLES SCHUMER Public confidence in UC is of paramount importance to us, and we will reform our policies and/or pra... PAUL SCHWARTZ An intellectual person is always confident about his or her own words when he or she communicates wi... SAAIF ALAM but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short. JANE AUSTEN Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ... CHRISTINA ENGELA An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and coura... JOSEPH PULITZER Since 9/11, a homeland security product has the potential to be very lucrative. I know people in the... COLLEEN MCCUE Whether you're president or speaker, if you're wrong, we need to stand up and point it out. ... LOUIE GOHMERT Maybe politically it wasn't wise but when people have different view points I think the public h... SCOTT MCCALLUM The media no longer ask those who know something to share that knowledge with the public. Instead th... SERGE DANEY People that I care about, that I consider being friends of mine, most of the things I discuss with t... COMMON To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD We know that the most fundamental responsibility of our Federal Government is to ensure the safety o... VITO FOSSELLA I believe our country has to do whatever we can do to protect ourselves-we're king of the hill. ... RICK YUNE I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic pre... JOHN F. KENNEDY We demand the foreign national involved in such a marriage application be required to present his ta... REN YUANZHENG Researchers should always consider ethical concerns on scientific research and disclose their data t... SHINYA YAMANAKA Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... Day labor has been thrust into the public consciousness, but we're concerned that the debate has gon... ABEL VALENZUELA The public has a right to know what kind of monitoring the government is doing, and there should be ... ADAM COHEN No one need worry about our getting the best of God in some bargain with him, or that we might someh... DALLAS WILLARD Everyone has his own need for public and therefore public should not be artificially imposed on huma... ILKIN SANTAK One of the gaps in our international development efforts is the provision of global public goods - t... ANNA LINDH The U.S. government has reasonable concern over the prospect that these documents will be made avail... BILL CARTER He didn't pay any attention to us. His motorcade flew right by, ... Those people resent what Preside... JEAN PREWITT We brought the lawsuit because we believe the public has a right to know about the 'no fly' list and... JAN ADAMS The public concern for the secrecy that has surrounded this project should be on full alert as infor... LINDA GODFREY The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Darkness is nothing but an opportunity to spread light JACKIE VIRAMONTEZ There's no question the calls from the public have increased, ... These include calls from the publi... DON KELLY We have always been called racist, but it has nothing to do with racism. This is a national security... CARMEN MERCER A poet should always be 'collaborating' with his public, but this public, in the mass, canno... LOUIS MACNEICE Law-abiding Americans deserve to know that their government will not secretly tap their phones, read... RALPH NEAS The President's handling of the war has been a toxic mix of ignorance, arrogance, and stubborn ideol... EDWARD KENNEDY More than any of his predecessors, he has gone public with every issue under the sun. I'm not sure t... TOM SCHLESINGER Peter Jennings represented all that was best in journalism and public service. His reporting was a g... CONDOLEEZZA RICE Romney has to convince the American public that they need to do something they're not usually in... BILL KRISTOL The news cycle has moved on and I don't want the public to forget about those who were affected by K... MICHAEL STIPE Next to upholding the Constitution of the United States, the president's highest duty is to prot... WESLEY CLARK We know the pain the president has caused our society and his family and his friends, but we know, t... CHARLES RUFF We have some gaps in the system that need to be addressed. I'm not sure Florida has the type of moni... ADAM DEMING Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI Scholars may contribute their knowledge or insight to public debate on important issues. They may co... DOUGLAS LAYCOCK It is worrying that there has been no public debate about whether this kind of technique ought to be... DAVID KING If crime is going down, you shouldn't be increasing resources for crime prevention. Or you shoul... STEVEN PINKER In the public's mind, Special Forces are often confused with the 'door kickers' of Speci... PETER BERGEN The question is not, Does or doesn't public schooling create a public? The question is, What kind of... NEIL POSTMAN We need a better way to talk about eating animals. We need a way that brings meat to the center of p... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER The decision to join or not join a service union, political party or other organization should be le... MATT BLUNT I think the president has it correct. We are addicted to foreign energy sources, almost to the point... DONALD WATKINS He has a charm offensive under way with the far right, and we understand that, but at some point, to... MIKE MCCURRY The general public has done a tremendous job with fundraisers, ... But this is a continuous thing. W... JOHN GILLIS I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolutewhere no Catholic prelat... JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY I really don't want to comment about that at this point. Until he signs with us, I don't see any nee... IVAN GAZIDIS Plainly put, the developer is writing public-land policies. And the Forest Service rubber stamps the... JEFF BERMAN Those who try to prevent the journalists from reporting the truth, especially those who resort to vi... WANG WEIZHONG How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality t... ADAM MCKAY David has always been one of those quietly influential staffers that has an impact all of out propor... BRADFORD BERENSON In the past, those who had ideas they wished to communicate to the public had the unquestioned right... SOL WACHTLER
More Peter T. King
I felt that the IRA, in the context of Irish history, and Sinn Fein were a legitimate force that had... PETER T. KING When things did go wrong for the IRA, when civilians were killed, I tried to put it in context, not ... PETER T. KING I'm saying this as a Republican: In the White House, the effort that goes in and wherever these ... PETER T. KING White House leaks of classified information put the lives of U.S. service members, intelligence offi... PETER T. KING Again, we saw in Bosnia - we had U.N. peacekeepers tied to trees, being taken hostage. The fact is t... PETER T. KING And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then t... PETER T. KING The United States has already experienced the danger of flawed refugee vetting as well as the potent... PETER T. KING Ask Bill Clinton about Yasir Arafat. Clinton and Barak did everything they could in 2000 at Camp Dav... PETER T. KING I was born in Manhattan, raised in Queens, went to high school and college in Brooklyn. My father wa... PETER T. KING I think if we're going to live in this - in this world - in this technological world where infor... PETER T. KING Any New Yorker who even thinks of voting for Ted Cruz should have their head examined, Really, here&... PETER T. KING Ted Cruz may be an intelligent person, but he doesn't carry out an intelligent debate. He oversi... PETER T. KING My goal, if I could have an ultimate goal, is to have new leaders emerge from within the Muslim comm... PETER T. KING The whole idea of a nuclear system is to have a deterrent where we decide if we're going to use ... PETER T. KING George Bush, Dick Cheney, every one of the speakers praised John Kerry's war record. No one said... PETER T. KING We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terr... PETER T. KING I don't know anyone at the highest levels who approved Abu Ghraib. If President Barack Obama for... PETER T. KING There are too many people sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully ... PETER T. KING It seems that, every several months, you have to expect there is going to be a terrorist incident or... PETER T. KING If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I ... PETER T. KING America has a long and proud history of providing safe harbor for refugees. We must continue to do s... PETER T. KING I have been to Guantanamo. It's a model prison. Is it ideal? No. But we live in a very un-ideal ... PETER T. KING My legislation would cut off all funding for trials of anyone from Guantanamo in any court in the Un... PETER T. KING The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the righ... PETER T. KING I support mosques, obviously. We need churches, temples, mosques. Whatever people use to speak with ... PETER T. KING If we have another 2,000 people killed, I want Nancy Pelosi and George Soros, John Conyers and Pat L... PETER T. KING I like Donald Trump; he's been good to me. He supported me at rough times when I was being attac... PETER T. KING Michael Brown was a criminal who had robbed a convenience store and then attempted to kill Police Of... PETER T. KING The party has to be rebuilt on all levels. In a way, maybe it's to be expected when you've h... PETER T. KING As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of th... PETER T. KING ... This is too serious a game to be playing to continue to be strung out by Saddam Hussein. PETER KING the Colts have no one to blame but themselves for the pickle in which they're now in. Allowing the l... PETER KING For him to be belittling that really flies in the face of how he's going to bring some allied coalit... PETER KING Infants have no privilege to cheat men PETER KING We went into Iraq because Saddam Hussein refused to account for his weapons of mass destruction, con... PETER KING The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fr... T. STARR KING You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them. PETER T. FORSYTH Just remember, when you should grab something, grab it; when you should let go, let go. PETER T. MCINTYRE The local church is the outcrop of the church universal. PETER T. FORSYTH Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong. PETER T. MCINTYRE Why worry about what people think of us do we have more confidence in their opinions than in our ... PETER T. MCINTYRE I'm a fan of Jay-Z, I'mma always be a fan of Jay-Z. T-PAIN Once people tell me I can't do stuff, I'm going to go and make it happen. T-PAIN Most geniuses are weird. T-PAIN I've got a song on every album, two songs as a matter of fact on every album without Auto-Tune, ... T-PAIN As long as someone wants to hear my music, I don't care if it's a ringtone or the album or w... T-PAIN When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big r... T-PAIN I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go giv... T-PAIN I was in 30-plus clubs when I was 14 years old. T-PAIN I just keep my cars to myself. T-PAIN I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same ti... T-PAIN Anytime people read my tweets, they hear it in Auto-Tune. T-PAIN I don't know if a song is going to be a hit or it's going to flop. I never know. I just do t... T-PAIN The way that people show me love on Twitter? I don't know man. It's amazing. T-PAIN My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music. T-PAIN I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing. T-PAIN I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs. T-PAIN I've got to be sensible sometimes. T-PAIN I don't worry. I don't doubt. I'm daring. I'm a rebel. MR. T A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is... ICE T If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm h... ICE T If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping. ICE T The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny. ICE T My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot... ICE T Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too ma... ICE T If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it. ICE T You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the ... ICE T An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say... ICE T AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to yo... ICE T Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to fi... ICE T Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets. ICE T A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself. ICE T I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,&... ICE T My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I unders... ICE T I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be consider... ICE T I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the ... ICE T WWE asked me to be in the Hall of Fame, and I turned it down. You know why? They put Pete Rose in th... MR. T I'll treat myself every now and then. Like if I get $100,000, I'll spend $20,000 and put the... T-PAIN They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. Th... T-PAIN I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am. T-PAIN There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don... T-PAIN There's a lot of stuff you've gotta know about Auto-Tune before you can start using it, beca... T-PAIN I write my music. T-PAIN People that watch Adult Swim don't watch the Oscars. T-PAIN I'm pretty much in love with 'Adult Swim.' T-PAIN I make sure I sing a cappella to let people know I can sing. T-PAIN Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to... T-PAIN I do YouTube my cars a lot. T-PAIN My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, s... T-PAIN I think Eminem should use Auto-Tune. T-PAIN My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to s... T-PAIN Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time. T-PAIN I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was... T-PAIN We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings. T-PAIN People think a Muslim has to have a turban or a big beard. It's stupid. T-PAIN You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, ... T-PAIN Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that befo... T-PAIN Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who p... T-PAIN 'Nappy' is a state of mind, not an appearance. T-PAIN To be a bodyguard is to be a kamikaze pilot. Dedicated. MR. T The pain and hurt which i feel,
go as deep as it is real;
to be around and yet unseen,
takes the ... JAY T Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place. ICE T I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or... MR. T My mood board says that there should be a G.O.O.D. Music festival. Why not? Like, we haven't - I... PUSHA T Every once in a while, I hear somebody call me Tracy to try to let me know that they know me, you kn... ICE T I love vintage cars because you can do so much more to them. T-PAIN Back in the day, I would wear up to 45 pounds of gold. It would take me four hours to get dressed! MR. T Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you w... ICE T I believe in the Golden Rule - The Man with the Gold... Rules. MR. T Diet food is for lazy people. ICE-T God is on my side, and that's all I need. I get up in the morning, I pray to God. I don't pr... MR. T A good villain exudes charisma and power. He has principles, though; that just gives him a level of ... PUSHA T My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the peop... MR. T I'm a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian. MR. T I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up. ICE T You'll never have any trouble with Mr. T, I'm just a big, calm teddy bear kind of guy. Mr. T... MR. T I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I... ICE T The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jac... ICE T I've evolved, but I'm the same dude, I'm just in a different place. We all change, we al... ICE T It's not about vein' mad at everything. It's about bein' REALLY mad at the right stuff. ICE T. Biggie is my favorite rapper, for sure. No other artist has impacted me that much. PUSHA T I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing. ICE T My vision for G.O.O.D. Music is just carrying on with the tradition of putting out high-quality musi... PUSHA T I feel like my lyrics are just dark and scathing. I feel like the lyrics on 'Darkest Before Dawn... PUSHA T Gravity is my best friend. Gravity keeps me and my family together. LEANNE T. When you make albums like I do, and it's based off fanfare and based off touring - I make these ... PUSHA T Jay-Z is like a rap-savant, he doesn't have to write the rhymes down, he can create complex raps... ICE T I don't even know how to think about running out of things to talk about. Certain things are ine... PUSHA T I make a timeless music. I think I've made my mark as a lyricist and as an innovator and as a ta... PUSHA T All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with 'Rocky,... MR. T If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis. ICE T Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls. ICE T Any man who doesn't love his mama can't be no friend of mine. MR. T I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion... ICE T I’m always soft for you, that’s the problem. You could come knocking on my door five years from ... AZRA T. When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone... MR. T Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the rad... ICE T He didn’t know what beget what, but he quickly learned that people with money to hide were powerfu... T. MOUNTEBANK My mother told me, 'Son, nobody else but God knows.' And that's what I'm about - rea... MR. T I felt like when I got with Kanye, and we discussed me being on G.O.O.D. Music, he just really took ... PUSHA T Time never changes things..It only give us the space to change it. RAMANATHAN T Dog's just want to sniff an ass and eat some food. ICE-T Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm st... ICE T As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal. MR. T I'm tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he's... MR. T You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear w... ICE T Love is always the reason to go on with life. Love is the answer to all the problems. SAKTHIVEL T I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,'... ICE T You can think about killing yourself a thousand times a day and each time it gets just a little bit ... T DOGMAN The cost of electrons and photons is getting cheaper all the time! T. GILLING I feel like I'm the last rap superhero. I really do. I feel like everybody else, they seem to be... PUSHA T If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading... MR. T Boys do not long for fathers who will usher them through the gauntlet of psychological disconnect. T... T. REAL I swore on my knees at the altar where you held me that I would kill you. It was an oath you made me... T. MOUNTEBANK My name, my real name, is Tracy. I always thought I was like a boy named Sue. So I made my friends c... ICE T I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops... ICE T My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's ... ICE T That became the signature Ice-T style - rhymes that were "topical" and "vividly optical." To me it w... ICE-T Frankly, I don't feel the fire anymore from the youth. I miss my era when motherfuckers were fightin... ICE-T If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut. ICE-T We pretended she'd only gotten lost in the colors of fall. Piper T. GREENWOOD I didn't come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things... MR. T I never understood why movies don't have to be as responsible, or the responsibility stops with ... PUSHA T When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my moth... MR. T I think adidas really understands that it's cool to be in business with the right people. It rea... PUSHA T Goblin tea resembles a nice cup of Earl Grey in much the same way that a catfish resembles the commo... T. KINGFISHER Most of us will die twice; Once when we take our last breath, and again when the world forgets your ... T. ARCHMAN I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want i... ICE T So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting. ICE T I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record. ICE T I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whethe... STEPHEN KING Fiction is the truth inside the lie. STEPHEN KING If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny. ALAN KING As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. KING SOLOMON And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invadin... STEPHEN KING People send me CDs all the time because I love music. It's great. I listen to them in my dressin... TED KING I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him. ... TED KING I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on. TED KING I collect LPs, but only if they're pretty high quality. I don't go back and dig through the ... TED KING Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a ... TABITHA KING Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character. TABITHA KING In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe... TABITHA KING Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it. TABITHA KING Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, yo... TABITHA KING Each life makes its own immitation of immortality. STEPHEN KING I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find th... STEPHEN KING You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long a... STEPHEN KING When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.' STEPHEN KING The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your fe... STEPHEN KING Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in. STEPHEN KING We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones. STEPHEN KING People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small ... STEPHEN KING I consider myself lucky that Sheila Johnson, the cofounder of Black Entertainment Television, didn... GAYLE KING I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is tota... KAKI KING Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the ... KAKI KING I've followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don't have to always wr... KAKI KING I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be ... KAKI KING I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want t... KAKI KING I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar. KAKI KING I have to say, I do love the Ovation guitars. If I had one guitar to play, it would be that one, and... KAKI KING