Latest Charlie Pierce Quotes from Interviews

• I think, over the last couple of years, the written word has made a comeback on the Internet. For example, I'm seeing more long-form narrative experiments there. The overall noise level, however, continues to increase. Do we really need TV screens to watch when we pump gas? Really?

  Charlie Pierce

  Couple, Thinking, Comeback

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• You know, what genuinely makes me uneasy with the way things are going are not - is not really that Trump is going to do everything he said he was going to do, it`s that he has no idea of his job as president. Plus, the people who have been up close and realized that he has no idea how to do this job are leaking like sieves.

  Charlie Pierce

  People, President, Uneasy

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• Every president learns on the job because nobody`s really prepared for the kind of decisions that cross your desk every day. No one`s prepared for that. No vice president who has scended to the presidency has ever truly been ready for that. Certainly, no vice president who`s assumed the presidency in extremis, like Harry Truman, has been ready for that. But this Trump guy doesn`t seem to be ready for a career in government.

  Charlie Pierce

  Guy, Decision, President

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• In order to get big things done, sometimes, presidents have to be deft at moving the pea around under the shells.

  Charlie Pierce

  Moving, Order, President

  Source: www.esquire.com

• There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent.

  Charlie Pierce

  Greedy, Reckless, Violent

  Source: www.esquire.com

• Campaigns are no longer high-minded exchanges of ideas, even though God knows we need more good ones - ideas, that is.

  Charlie Pierce

  Ideas, Needs, Campaigns

  Source: www.esquire.com