Elite Access Quotes

The great thing about working with NPR - and, really, there's like a million of 'em - is all the cool stuff I get to do for the public. Meet the president. Hang out at the National Finals Rodeo in Vegas. Drink a $10,000 martini.

The walk-in privilege, to walk into the Oval Office and have a conversation with the president, is not something that everybody gets.

One way to understand human progress is to look at how technology has made products and services - once reserved for the elite - progressively more accessible and affordable.

Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage.

Luxury brands are about elite access. In consumer goods, that's elite cost. In education, it's elite criteria for admission. Minerva is maintaining those high standards, but not artificially limiting the number of people who can meet it... This really may be redefining education.

If I go to a concert or sporting event I usually go in a VIP entrance. And leave the same way.

I will interview bigwigs if I get the chance, but you are seldom surprised by people in power - you've got to get awfully damn close to get anything new.

It's good to bear in mind that like it or not, enlightenment has always been, even in a golden age, pretty much limited to an elite.

I've known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.