Perhaps the most damaging aspect of the Obamacare tech nightmare is how wholly predictable it all was. Anyone who has been involved in building the most rudimentary of web operations knows nothing ever works as it’s supposed to. Even awesome Apple, mighty Microsoft, and gargantuan Google miss deadlines. – Tina Brown
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar turned out to be all hat and no cattle with his sorry oversight of the Minerals Management Service. – Tina Brown
By the end of ‘Game Change,’ one feels that the candidates’ few happy moments are those when they ‘lose it.’ – Tina Brown
Unlike the Kennedy dynasty, who always knew how to pay off people who might make trouble, the Windsors can’t bring themselves to part with any royal trinkets. – Tina Brown
I think that big, sort of theatrical relaunches tend to set you up for failure and hype. – Tina Brown
Corporate communications will become a high-tech art, just as political communication is for Obama. – Tina Brown
Being president, you may have more power than anyone else in the country, but you quickly discover that you have much, much less than you thought you’d have going in. You’re hamstrung in ways you never dreamed of. – Tina Brown
What is new is the multiplying reach and volume of the Internet, concentrating the toxicity of destructive emotions and circulating them in the political bloodstream with unparalleled velocity. – Tina Brown
Beast Books will be longer than conventional long-form magazine articles but shorter than conventional nonfiction books. They will be published digitally and distributed on multiple platforms, and will soon thereafter be available as handy paperbacks. – Tina Brown
Give Obama a script he has made his own, and he is the motivational speaker to end all speakers. Tony Robbins cloned with Honest Abe. – Tina Brown
I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn’t replace the other kind of reporting. – Tina Brown
For a guy who believes in hope, Obama doesn’t seem to be able to spread much of it around. How can he? We know too much now about the hollowness of institutions and the frailty of their leaders. – Tina Brown
Now everyone leaking and tweeting and posting on everyone else is the acknowledged way to get ahead in the 21st century. – Tina Brown
There are a multitude of mothers in the world who have a daughter who is stolen, or who are stolen daughters themselves. – Tina Brown
Prince William’s smiling hostility toward the press is his non-negotiable core value. I am told he is so protective of his privacy he has been known to plant false tips with friends he distrusts and watch the media to see if they play out. – Tina Brown
It is ironic that American women now need to be fortified by the inspiration of the women of the Arab Spring, who risked so much to win basic human rights. – Tina Brown
Obama, for all his brilliance, has no real, felt understanding of management structures or of business. – Tina Brown
Obama can’t change his cool disposition, though it would be nice if he lost the vaguely grudging air he gives off that problems of management get in the way of ideas. – Tina Brown
Obama’s stern demeanor punctuated by intermittent flashes of his wide, relaxing smile is his greatest weapon in defusing pent-up angst. – Tina Brown
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. – Tina Brown
The women of Afghanistan, left behind as their men fought, did what the women of World War II did – used their wits and resourcefulness to preserve some semblance of civilization. – Tina Brown
I am thrilled to share the news that Andrew Sullivan is bringing his trailblazing journalism to ‘The Daily Beast.’ – Tina Brown
‘Out of the box’ corporate thinking helped carry real American innovation out in a box. A pine box. – Tina Brown
One of the the great things about having had something that didn’t work out is: So what? I am fine. – Tina Brown