Ron Suskind Quotes

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• Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.

  Ron Suskind

  Faces, Action, Competence

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• Confidence is the public face of competence.

  Ron Suskind

  Faces, Competence

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

  Ron Suskind

  Faith, Unseen, Substance

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• Many years later, a psychiatrist friend of mine said something to us. He said, "Respect denial." It's a powerful force.

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  Powerful, Years, Denial

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them.

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  Passion, People, One Thing

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• Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.

  Ron Suskind

  Self Confidence, Degrees, Bonus

  Ron Suskind (2012). “Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President”, p.84, Harper Collins

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• 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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  Writing, White, House

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• Two sons, they'll both be presidents after they win their Nobel Prizes. And the daughters, they'll be prima ballerinas before they become the president of Princeton and start their Internet company. And I just started to think about What's the conventional load of those expectations you carry around? You have to pull them out one by one and smash them in the corner. You realize the pile is quite high. But in a way, it becomes oddly liberating to do that.

  Ron Suskind

  Daughter, Son, Winning

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Who besides guys like me are part of the reality-based community?

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  Reality, Community, Guy

  "Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush" by Ron Suskind, www.nytimes.com. October 17, 2004.

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• The key is to put your outrage in a place where you can get it when you need to, but not have it bubble up so much, especially when you're asked to explain new ideas or explain what you observed two people who share none of your experiences.

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  Keys, Ideas, Two

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• These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.

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  Lobbyists, Humans, Human Beings

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• The President [Barack Obama] is very focused on [healthcare]. He, of course, is also writing this speech at high speed. And right coming up until the speech, he is convinced that a full plan, letter and verse of what the administration wants, will be released.

  Ron Suskind

  Writing, President, Letters

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• 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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  Doctors, Views, Ideas

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• It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying

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  Kids, Irony, Exciting

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• For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes.

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  Thinking, Sometimes, Upbeat

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• Every person has their pantheon - the Bible, Hollywood, Shakespeare - their way of understanding the world.

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  Understanding, Hollywood, World

  "'A Pathway, Not a Prison'". Interview with Hanna Rosin, www.slate.com. April 1, 2014.

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• A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders -- management skills.

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  Skills, Leader, Littles

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• 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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  Simple, People, Trying

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• 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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  People, Telling The Truth, Standing

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• I think that [Barack Obama] does say something that's - that is telling on that score, when he talks about the [George W.] Bush tax cuts and the swap he makes after the midterm elections, which is he doesn't agree with the Bush tax cuts.

  Ron Suskind

  Cutting, Thinking, Doe

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• 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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  Party, Government, Two

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• 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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  Facts, Vote, Republican

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

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  Messages, Matter, Action

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• 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.

  Ron Suskind

  Years, Important, Term

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

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  Issues, News, Deals

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