Ron Suskind Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“The fact is, I can vote for anybody; independents, Republicans, Democrats. But I'm a registered Democrat in the District of Columbia.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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,'”

“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.”

“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.”