Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes. Nancy Gibbs Dad
There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership. Nancy Gibbs Leadership
The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs. Nancy Gibbs Medical
Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide. Nancy Gibbs Politics
The Reverend Jeremiah Wright would baptize Obama, perform his marriage to Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, baptize their daughters, and draw him into the raucous, restless family of faith that Obama had never known before. Nancy Gibbs Marriage
A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights. Nancy Gibbs Cool
Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes. Nancy Gibbs Mom
After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault. Nancy Gibbs Intelligence
I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen. Nancy Gibbs Chance
Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers. Nancy Gibbs Knowledge
Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do. Nancy Gibbs Car
A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon. Nancy Gibbs Power
The days of the Pentagon Papers debates seem long past, when a sudden transparency yielded insight into fights over war and peace and freedom and security; the transparency afforded by Twitter and Facebook yields insights that extend no further than a lawmaker's boundless narcissism and a culture's pitiless prurience. Nancy Gibbs Peace
Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do. Nancy Gibbs Knowledge