“Gird yourself for the jackal with the belt of a lion,” announced Rear Adm. Liam M. Hulin, head of the joint task force for Operation Inherent Resolve, at a ceremony in Baghdad marking the complete withdrawal of U.S. troops after two decades.
“Perhaps what made Leo a success was that he had the charisma of the timid, if you will,” said Charles Mercier, an expert on Catholicism at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, a postgraduate college in Paris. “Paradoxically, what makes him charismatic is his reserved personality, bordering on shyness. He had a completely different charisma that was, in fact, able to arouse support in French public opinion.”(New York Times, October 1)
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“Credit is like medicine,” said Lauro Gonzalez, a finance and debt professor at Fundação Getulio Vargas, a Brazilian research institute. “No one is against it, but in the wrong dose, it can become poison.”
“Just because a victim’s narrative evolves or changes doesn’t mean it’s untrue,” said Moira Penza, a former federal prosecutor. “But grand juries and trials can’t stop at ‘believe women.’”
“We will all, at some point in our lives, fall,” says Coach Eric Taylor at the end of the "Friday Night Lights" pilot, celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. (New York Times, October 3)
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“Should you see Chief Justice John Roberts duck into Squid Ink coffee or the Port Clyde General Store this summer, consider letting him know exactly what you think of him and his illegitimate, ultraconservative court,” wrote Becca Shaw Glaser, a columnist for a mid-coast Maine newspaper, under the headline “We Need to Talk about Chief Justice John Roberts Blissfully Summering Off Port Clyde.”“Yell, boo, whisper, weep audibly, give him the thumbs down or the finger, hand him a note, refuse to serve him.”
“Growing up, I would visit my grandparents in China in the summers, and my friends there were all pirating ‘Gossip Girl’ to learn English,” said Alice Ma, the 31-year-old founder of Mad Realities, which is behind shows like “Keep the Meter Running,” a digital hit depicting interviews with cabdrivers. “The whole world is kind of obsessed with New York as a backdrop.”(New York Times, October 4)
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“At some point, you do get conditioned by all that’s happened in the past,” said James Henson, the director of the University of Texas at Austin’s Texas Politics Project, expressing skepticism about the Democtratic Senate candidtate's edge in polls. “I mean, you look at the trends and you have to admit that something’s going on. But you still don’t want to believe your lying eyes, because you’ve been burned for so long.” (New York Times, October 7)
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“People become real to us by frustrating us,” the psychoanalyst Adam Phillips once wrote. “If they don’t frustrate us they are merely figures of fantasy.” (New York Times, October 12)
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“If liberalism is to rise again, it must be with the working class at its heart,” said Daron Acemoglu, a Nobel laureate in economics and professor at M.I.T.
“We’ll return you to 1970s rates, plus high gas prices, diesel shortages and bell-bottoms. Enjoy the nostalgia!” wrote Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran’s Parliament. (New York Times, October 21)
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“Oh and by the way,” Felicity Green, fashion editor of The Daily Mirror (a British tabloid) wrote in her Nov. 4, 1966, story, “I am assured by Those Who Know that the newest essential for really In-type modes is noise . . . Rustling, I’m told, is out. Rattling is in, so this dress is very in indeed, as the moment you move it sounds like a pop-crazy audience applauding the Beatles.”
“The Democrats have been librarians for too long,” said Jon Reinish, a Democratic strategist, referring to Chris Gallant, a Congressional candidate on Long Island who has leaned into his past as a kink model, as well as a Black Hawk pilot and an air traffic controller. (New York Times, October 22)
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“I believe in an Islam that emphasizes God and my responsibility in his creation,” wrote Abdul El-Sayed, MD, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Michigan, in his 2020 memoir, Healing Politics. “The Islam I practice doesn’t judge people; it seeks to empathize with and empower them.” (New York Times, October 23)
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“When I first ran for office, I thought of it as left versus right,” said James Talarico, Democratic candidate for Senate in Texas. “I’ve now come to see politics as not left versus right but top versus bottom.” (New York Times, October 24)
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“The homosexual clique was a problem,” Abe Rosenthal, a former executive editor of the New York Times wrote in his journal, “because it was usually subterranean, which gave it a kind of conspiracy atmosphere, and because homosexuals in the clique always were convinced or tried to convince themselves that they were wiser, more acute, ‘better’ than the others — the old breed.”
“That was hurtful, and it gives us a chip on our shoulder — one that I still have today,” said New York Governor Kathy Hochul, a native of Buffalo. “People look down on us. You’re the Rust Belt. Your team loses four Super Bowls. You have the Blizzard of ’77, which was on Johnny Carson late-night jokes. People mocked us all the time. So that’s been our psyche. And I just thought, ‘But we’re not losers.’” (New York Times, October 25)
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“I am concerned that we have an overheating of expectations,” said Molly Murphy, a pollster who worked on the 2024 campaigns of former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and former Vice President Kamala Harris. “People often assume in a wave you win everything, and what happens in a modern wave is you win far more than normal.” (New York Times, October 26)
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“What does Xi [Jinping] want his legacy to be? I think first and foremost, it is a stronger Communist Party, perhaps even more than a stronger China,” said Neil Thomas, a senior fellow on Chinese politics at the Asia Society Policy Institute. “The first is the foremost prerequisite for the latter as far as he’s concerned.” (New York Times, October 27)
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“When you want attendance to pop at your park or in your company, you don’t put in a carousel, you don’t put in a scrambler, you put in a roller coaster, and you name it ‘The Demon’ or ‘The Bat’ or ‘The Beast’ or whatever,” said Dennis Speigel, a global theme-park consultant and past president of the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions. “And people come out in droves to ride it.” (New York Times, October 28)“The ball is now in [Gadi] Eisenkot’s court. Whoever wants to remove Netanyahu and change his policies — we are ready to cooperate to topple his government,” said Yousef Jabareen, the leader of the Joint List alliance, an Arab political party that won more seats in Israel's inconclusive parliamentary elections this week than ever before due to high turn-out.
“It’s wartime," said André Janones, who masterminded a WhatsApp channel called "Lula’s Army" that contributed to the defeat of Flávio Bolsonaro, the right-wing candidate who had been expected to win Brazil's presidential election. "The time we’re living through today is not the time for us to do what we’d like to do. It’s the moment for us to do what needs to be done.” (New York Times, October 30)
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