The Buzz

"In the last couple of decades, if you look around the world, there's been an enormous amount of experimentation in government. We have truly broken out of the bureaucratic box."
Public Policy Lecturer Elaine Kamarck speaking at a Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government seminar on the revolutionary impact of technology and globalization on governance.

"The way to be original, the way to make a mark, is to do something soft, because the possibilities are infinite in soft news."
William Powers, media critic for The National Journal and 2006 Shorenstein Fellow, on the temptation of soft news among the ever-larger corps of reporters covering an ever-longer presidential campaign.

"We are very religious, and yet, because they're so mixed together, we don't demonize other religions."
Professor of Public Policy Robert Putnam discussing the multiplicity of religions in the United States and the resulting acceptance of one another's religious beliefs, at a Hauser Center talk on the changing contribution of religion to American civic life.

"We need to be part of a 21st-century abolitionist movement."
Ambassador John Miller, former director of the U.S. Department of State's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, on the need for global action against trafficking, at a Women and Public Policy Program event.

photo: Kent Dayton