Ron Fournier Quotes

• If Mitt Romney is vanilla, Chris Christie is three hefty scoops of Rocky Road topped with whipped cream, Red Bull, and gravel.

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• If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty.

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• I’ve been leading newsrooms for a while now and it’s been an honor serving as Editor in Chief of N.J., but I really think that my best shot at moving the needle in politics is by getting close to it – by reading, reporting, tweeting and writing.

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• I’m hearing echoes of Bill Clinton, circa 1996, in President Obama’s reelection rhetoric.

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• Hollywood has a history of raising expectations beyond Washington’s reach, of appealing to the very American desire to mythologize political leaders, particularly the president.

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• Clearly, the Obama presidency hasn’t wiped out racial prejudices.

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• Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat, acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis, and pledged to do something about it if elected.

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• Close elections tend to break toward the challenger because undecided voters – having held out so long against the incumbent – are by nature looking for change.

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• Don’t stigmatize in a rush to explain inexplicable evil.

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• Don’t kid yourself. President Obama’s decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States’ ‘position of strength’ in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home.

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  Tags in Afghanistan, Withdraw

• Don’t underestimate questions from the crowd; technology has made voters more informed than ever.

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  Tags in Underestimate, Crowd

• At his best, Obama promised to work with Republicans to reduce the deficit in a way that honors both individualism and community.

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• At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama’s fitness than his willingness: Why doesn’t he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?

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  Tags in Required, Fitness

• Barack Obama may have found the answer to his biggest rhetorical challenge: When millions of voters are unemployed or underemployed, how does a president simultaneously sound realistic and optimistic?

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  Tags in Unemployed, Simultaneously

• Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more than the headache of building consensus in a gridlocked capital on behalf of a polarized public.

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• Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.

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  Tags in Pessimism, Realism

• By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn’t suffer fools – a striving politician who considers himself above politics.

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  Tags in Putting, Striving

• Christie led the way – with a bulldozer. The governor is blunt, brash, and self-consciously authentic, the antithesis to what turns off today’s voters: flip-flopping politicians who speak in poll-tested platitudes. Yes, he’s the anti-Romney.

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  Tags in Way, Blunt

• A presidential debate is a job interview. And voters look for certain traits in people applying to be president.

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  Tags in Traits, Interview

• A sagging economy, a soaring national debt, and an increasingly restive Congress pushed Obama to order troop reductions that are both deeper and faster than recommended by his military commanders.

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  Tags in Congress, Sagging

Ron Fournier (90)

Birth:	1963
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Journalist

About

Fournier is a native of Detroit, Michigan. He attended the University of Detroit. His wife, Lori, is also a graduate of the University of Detroit. They have three children, who they have raised in Arlington County, Virginia. Ron Fournier is an American national political journalist currently of the National Journal. Fournier had previously served as Washington bureau chief at the Associated Press until leaving in In June 2010.

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