Ron Suskind Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“I don't have to deal with the issues of the daily news cycle.”

“The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“The informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere.”

“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.”

“Message matters. Message matters almost as much as actions.”