Correspondent

🇫🇷René Descartes

Philosophy

rationalism

1596–1650

"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."

🇫🇷Voltaire

Philosophy

Enlightenment

1694–1778

"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."

🇬🇷Nikos Kazantzakis

Literature

1883–1957

"The rosy mountain peaks laughed like high lustrous thoughts,and Helen, speechless, raised her pale hands toward the sunand joyed to feel its warm rays falling on her frozen palms."

🇺🇸Ana Kasparian

Journalism

b. 1986

"Co-workers looking at the leaked nudes from the hacking scandal while I judge them."

Denis Diderot

Philosophy

Enlightenment

1713–1784

"Il y a un peu de testicule au fond de nos sentiments les plus sublimes et de notre tendresse la plus épurée."

🇺🇸Jessica Savitch

Journalism

1947–1983

"No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one."

🇺🇸Peter Jennings

Journalism

1938–2005

"Two Most Honest People In News? Peter Jennings and Roger Ailes - According to O'Reilly" at Newshounds.us"

🇺🇸Joe the Plumber

Politics

1973–2023

"I'm getting ready to buy a company that makes 250 to 280 thousand dollars a year. Your new tax plan's going to tax me more, isn't it?"

🇺🇸Jamelle Bouie

Politics

b. 1987

"eaving home is hard, and the of wealth makes it even harder."

"The composer does not want the self-sufficiency of a richly complex text: he or she wants to feel that the text is something in need of musical setting."

🇺🇸Francis Pharcellus Church

Business

1839–1906

"CBC radio interview of Virginia O'Hanlon Douglas"