The Buzz

“You practically need a chiropractor for all the nodding going on around the table.”
Former Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell after a comment she made during a discussion with Swanee Hunt, director of the school’s Women and Public Policy Program, on the special challenges that women speakers face. Campbell, currently a visiting professor, said most women have had their comments ignored or taken less seriously in meetings than men’s comments.

“Did they send you here to fire me? So this is how it’s going to be!”
Comedian Jon Stewart, joking with a student in the Forum who asked him about his future plans. Stewart, the host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” received a standing ovation as he left the stage.

“There are a lot of lousy options.”
Professor Ashton Carter, a former deputy U.S. policy advisor on North Korea, talking in the Forum on how the Bush administration is divided over North Korea’s proliferation of nuclear weapons. No one, he said, is prepared to say they know what will work.

“No one goes to church on these shows. Many people don’t like that world.”
Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s “Hardball,” at a Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy discussion with his wife, journalist Kathleen Matthews. He argued that viewers “in the middle of the country” don’t connect with “liberal” network shows like “Friends” and “Law and Order” where “it’s cool to be gay and to have gay friends.”