Ron Suskind Quotes

• 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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  Topics in Fear, Truth

• Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Daily, Public

• To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power – it’s difficult. This administration has evolved new techniques to handle people like me. Their strategy, in a word, is simple: ignore them.

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  Topics in Power

• The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.

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  Tags in Hope, Faith

• The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

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  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Act

• The informed, unmanaged question. That’s the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Question, Dangerous

• The fact is, most journalists I know are not particularly political. They move around a lot.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Political, Fact

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fact, Vote

• The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don’t have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Kind, Government

• Message matters. Message matters almost as much as actions.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Matters, Action

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Today, Ever

• If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost immediately when it appears in the paper or a magazine, that somebody gets called into the boss’s office. And sometimes it can result in a loss of access for the reporter.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Bad, Sometimes

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Important

• I don’t have to deal with the issues of the daily news cycle.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Daily, Deal

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Idea, Liberal

• By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there’s more news that’s falling into books.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Game, Treat

• All of the leading terrorism experts are clear on one thing: that in terms of protecting America, we are almost never going to know a place or a time of an attack.

  Ron Suskind

  Topics in America

  Tags in Place

• Al-Qaeda has a kind of loose, almost entrepreneurial structure with lots of cells in various countries that are semi-independent.

  Ron Suskind

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Kind, Countries

Ron Suskind (18)

Birth:	20th November, 1959
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Journalist

About

Ron Suskind is a Pulitzer Prize winning American journalist and best-selling author. He was the senior national affairs writer for The Wall Street Journal from 1993 to 2000 and has published the books A Hope in the Unseen, The Price of Loyalty, The One Percent Doctrine, The Way of the World and Confidence Men.

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