Ron Suskind quotes
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“Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.”
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“The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.”
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“Many years later, a psychiatrist friend of mine said something to us. He said, "Respect denial." It's a powerful force.”
-- Ron SuskindSource : Source: www.esquire.com
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“It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them.”
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“Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.”
-- Ron SuskindSource : Ron Suskind (2012). “Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President”, p.84, Harper Collins
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“If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you did today, nobody from the White House will ever talk to you again”
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“Two sons, they'll both be presidents after they win their Nobel Prizes. And the daughters, they'll be prima ballerinas before they become the president of Princeton and start their Internet company. And I just started to think about What's the conventional load of those expectations you carry around? You have to pull them out one by one and smash them in the corner. You realize the pile is quite high. But in a way, it becomes oddly liberating to do that.”
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“Who besides guys like me are part of the reality-based community?”
-- Ron SuskindSource : "Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush" by Ron Suskind, www.nytimes.com. October 17, 2004.
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“The key is to put your outrage in a place where you can get it when you need to, but not have it bubble up so much, especially when you're asked to explain new ideas or explain what you observed two people who share none of your experiences.”
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“These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.”
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“The President [Barack Obama] is very focused on [healthcare]. He, of course, is also writing this speech at high speed. And right coming up until the speech, he is convinced that a full plan, letter and verse of what the administration wants, will be released.”
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“I absolutely reject that idea that the press is liberal and what it does is liberal. In my view, it's like accusing a doctor of malpractice or a lawyer of malfeasance.”
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“It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying”
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“For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes.”
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“Every person has their pantheon - the Bible, Hollywood, Shakespeare - their way of understanding the world.”
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“A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders -- management skills.”
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“The fact is, I can vote for anybody; independents, Republicans, Democrats. But I'm a registered Democrat in the District of Columbia.”
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“When you get people standing up saying, 'I'm going to just tell the truth; what do we have to fear?,' it encourages others, and it creates a counterresponse.”
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“I think that [Barack Obama] does say something that's - that is telling on that score, when he talks about the [George W.] Bush tax cuts and the swap he makes after the midterm elections, which is he doesn't agree with the Bush tax cuts.”
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“Message matters. Message matters almost as much as actions.”
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“I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status.”
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“I don't have to deal with the issues of the daily news cycle.”
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“Al-Qaeda has a kind of loose, almost entrepreneurial structure with lots of cells in various countries that are semi-independent.”
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“Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.”
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