Latest Ron Suskind Quotes from Interviews

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• [Barack Obama] says that he thinks America felt better, more confident, because Washington was not simply in a gridlock, in stasis, where nothing was being done. And he talks about that as a positive.

  Ron Suskind

  Thinking, America, Done

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• [Barack Obama] says at one point, "[Jimmy] Carter, [Bill] Clinton and I suffer from," what he called, "the policy wonk's disease."

  Ron Suskind

  Suffering, Disease, Bills

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• 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

• There are many instances in which those at the uppermost levels of the White House were feeling the President [Barack Obama] was not fully informed of the flow of events and, in some cases, where policies were going in the White House.

  Ron Suskind

  White, House, Feelings

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• The President [Barack Obama], I think if you look at it from his shoes, you know, was facing a very difficult situation where he had to own Washington, tame New York, save a collapsing economy, with a collapsed financial system. He moved, I think, to a team that he felt was tried and true, in terms of dealing with financial crisis. That was his decision.

  Ron Suskind

  New York, Team, Thinking

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• 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

• The President, who really had been mostly managing his one-man Barack Obama narrative and journey his whole life, without executive experience, certainly - he's not a governor. Some governors, of course, they have experience in executing power, which is something fairly unique, actually, in government. And he has, neither, a set of nourishing experiences.

  Ron Suskind

  Unique, Journey, Men

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• I think that there's a lot of anxiety out there in people wanting their children to be part of the mainstream, to achieve based on the well-worn yardsticks.

  Ron Suskind

  Children, Thinking, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

• 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

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

  Ron Suskind

  Powerful, Years, Denial

  Source: www.esquire.com

• You try to hold on to some notions you might have had before, that this will somehow work out, this is a spell that will lift or be broken.

  Ron Suskind

  Broken, Work Out, Trying

  Source: www.esquire.com

• The idea that our son would be like Raymond Babbitt was a shocking reordering of everything. And something we couldn't quite fathom, really.

  Ron Suskind

  Son, Ideas, Would Be

  Source: www.esquire.com

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

  Ron Suskind

  Understanding, Hollywood, World

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