All Quoted

  • December 22, 2017

    “I would not want to deny some of the narcissism and indulgence of the baby boomer generation, but let us also recognize that they served.”

    —James Wright, president emeritus and author of ‘Enduring Vietnam: An American Generation and Its War’ in Hoover Institute’s Uncommon Knowledge

  • December 21, 2017

    “Every time you lose a young person, you lose many more years of life than when you lose an old person.”

    —Jonathan Skinner, the James O. Freedman Presidential Professor in Economics in USA Today

  • December 20, 2017

    “If we are islands with shorelines that will be shaped and reshaped over the years of a professional career—how can we prepare, personally and as a community, to embrace the changes while preserving the core of who we are?”

    —Kathryn Kirkland, MED ’86, a professor of medicine and the Dorothy and John J. Byrne, Jr., Distinguished Chair in Palliative Medicine at Geisel School of Medicine in JAMA

  • December 19, 2017

    “In other words, turn off your devices and unplug. Read books, think for yourself and write in your own voice, different from anyone else.”

    —Klaus Mladek, an associate professor of German studies and comparative literature in The Conversation

  • December 18, 2017

    “The focus on the trade balance in trade negotiations is misguided. Trade is not like a ledger, where imports are the cost and exports are the benefit, and trade surpluses and deficits do not indicate that one country is ‘winning’ and the other ‘losing.’ ”

    —Douglas Irwin, the John French Professor of Economics in The Wall Street Journal

  • December 15, 2017

    “If Abe and other conservatives discuss constitutional revision amidst rhetoric about ‘making Japan great again,’ that would not only alarm China, it would alarm a lot of people in the region and the world—including those who are currently predisposed to trust Japan.”

    —Jennifer Lind, associate professor of government in The Washington Post

  • December 14, 2017

    “Liberia is a country with almost nothing–a GDP per capita of $900 a year, much of that from international aid–struggling mightily to move its citizens out of dire poverty. The United States, a country that has almost everything, is doing its best to squander a degree of privilege unparalleled in history.”

    —Charles Wheelan ’88, senior lecture and policy fellow at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy in U.S. News & World Report

  • December 13, 2017

    “It has nothing to do with politics. This whole debate is, ‘Do we care about women.’ ”

    —Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand ’88 (D-NY) in The New York Times

  • December 12, 2017

    “Voters, for good reason, detest both parties.”

    —Morton Kondracke ’60, member of the Dartmouth Board of Trustees in Real Clear Politics

  • December 11, 2017

    “I believe that art can change the world.”

    —Autumn White Eyes ’14 in Teen Vogue

  • December 8, 2017

    “We are having a reckoning. I think it’s important.”

    —Kirsten Gillibrand ’88, U.S. senator in Politico Magazine

  • December 7, 2017

    “It’s not an essential nutrient like zinc and selenium, which you need but can be toxic if you take too much—there’s no known benefit to arsenic exposure.”

    —Margaret Karagas, professor of epidemiology at the Geisel School of Medicine in The New York Times

  • December 6, 2017

    “As the U.S. is one of the richest countries in the world, and in principle might be expected to have one of the most comfortable lifestyles in the world, it seems strange—to put it at its mildest—that the nation should report such a lot of pain.”

    —David Blanchflower, the Bruce V. Rauner 1978 Professor of Economics, and a study co-author in The Washington Post

  • December 5, 2017

    “This is playing with fire.”

    —Daniel Benjamin, director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding in The New York Times

  • December 4, 2017

    “Trump has sparked unprecedented levels of polarization in views toward the media. In the period for which we have data, Democrats and Republicans have never had such disparate levels of trust and confidence in the media.”

    —Brendan Nyhan, professor of government in Poynter

  • December 1, 2017

    “If the current moment of collective outrage leads us to turn a societal corner, to upend women’s reluctance and fear of speaking out; to stifle the sense of profound entitlement of some men to wantonly indulge their most sordid instincts; to overthrow the reluctance of bystanders and confidants to speak up, that would be a brilliant victory.”

    —Brenda Sirovich, associate professor of medicine, of community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice in Garnet News

  • November 30, 2017

    “Parents today think their kids have to immediately jump into robotics and electronics. Really, I think popsicle sticks, glue, cardboard, and tape can be a great starting off point.”

    — Vicki May, associate professor of engineering at Thayer School of Engineering in The Huffington Post

  • November 29, 2017

    “Millennials are super interested in corporate responsibility, more than any other generation. And they vote with their wallet, and their feet.”

    —Paul Argenti, professor of corporate communication at the Tuck School of Business in Enterprise

  • November 28, 2017

    “If we could use gene editing to remove the sequences in an embryo that cause sickle cell disease or cystic fibrosis, I would say not only that we may do so, but in the case of such severe diseases, we have a moral obligation to do so.”

    —Ronald Green, professor emeritus of religion and the Eunice and Julian Cohen Professor Emeritus for the Study of Ethics and Human Values in Science News

  • November 27, 2017

    “The Sinai attack underscores that the elimination of the ISIS caliphate will have little effect on the group’s regional affiliates, whose success or failure depends on local conditions.”

    —Daniel Benjamin, the Norman E. McCulloch Jr. Director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding in The Washington Post

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