Daniel Pfeiffer quotes

“The White House New Media team circulates multiple highlights each day of what people are looking for online - Twitter trending topics, popular Google searches, etc. - and it gives us a sense of what's breaking through, what isn't, and a sanity check for what the larger online population cares about at any given time.”
-- Daniel Pfeiffer

Source : "Interview: White House’s Dan Pfeiffer on How Twitter Pressured Congress to Act on Debt Ceiling Bill". Interview with Shira Lazar, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2011.

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“There is no business model in the modern media that promotes comity. If we worried too much about criticism, we wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.”
-- Daniel Pfeiffer

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“As I understand it, triangulation is the idea that you demonstrate to some set of swing voters that you are politically palatable by poking the extremes of both parties in they eyes.”
-- Daniel Pfeiffer

Source : "The Obama Triangulation: The Right, the Left and Slick Willy" by Judith Ellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2010.

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“I think it will be very challenging for someone who has not been in prominent public life in the age of Twitter to go out on the campaign trail.”
-- Daniel Pfeiffer

Source : "Which 'Wire' character reminds Obama adviser of Jeb Bush?" by Ashley Killough, www.cnn.com. December 30, 2014.

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“You want to come in and prove yourself early. Obviously, it is a responsibility being drafted that high to come in and play well and to make an impact. If not, youre going to get cut. So you have to come in, make the team, have an impact and do something special. And I feel that, obviously, internally. I feel an obligation to myself to do that but obviously the organization, the fans, this community. I mean, they dont want to see a first-round draft pick be a bust, so I feel I have to come in and hopefully make an impact early.”

“People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.”

Source : The New Yorker, en.wikiquote.org. April 7, 1956.

“People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.”

“I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.”

“But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.”

Source : "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

“In political matters feeling often decides more correctly than reason.”

“Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.”

“I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.”

“White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.”

“It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain. When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too. I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.