People are hungry now for stories that respect their level of intelligence and their actual experience".
"Our content respects a kind of intelligence in the readers that right now a lot of writing about teenage girls doesn't," Gevinson told me.
But here in Alaska and so many places across the U.S. where we have a pioneering spirit and we have an expectation that our representatives in D.C. will respect the will of the people and respect the intelligence of the people.
Sometimes it shows respect to speak up and voice your opinion, as a way of respecting the intelligence of others.
When they first meet, he lectures Jed about the importance of renouncing pork products out of respect for the intelligence of pigs; some time later, surrounded by packets of chorizo and mortadella and pâté de campagne, he admits despairingly: "I've completely relapsed into charcuterie".
"With respect to NSA collection of intelligence on leaders of US allies – including France, Spain, Mexico and Germany – let me state unequivocally: I am totally opposed," she said.
"With respect to NSA collection of intelligence on leaders of US allies – including France, Spain, Mexico and Germany – let me state unequivocally: I am totally opposed," she declared.
"With respect to NSA collection of intelligence on leaders of U.S. allies - including France, Spain, Mexico and Germany -let me state unequivocally: I am totally opposed," said Feinstein, who has been a staunch defender of some of the NSA programs leaked by Snowden.
Did the prime minister, who promised to respect the intelligence of the electorate, concede any of these things?
He respects the raw power of intelligence and its potential for influencing and driving foreign policy rather than tiresome diplomacy.
