Jeff Greenfield Quotes - Page 2

• In early 1961 a new president, John F. Kennedy, was told by military leaders and civilian officials that the Kingdom of Laos - of no conceivable strategic importance to the U.S. - required the presence of American troops and perhaps even tactical nuclear weapons. Why? Because if Laos fell, Asia would go red from Thailand to Indonesia.

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  Military, Leader, President

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• Describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial: These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.

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  People, Trials, Murder

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• There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as well be called laws of nature.

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  Strong, Law, Political

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• A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or watch the round-the-clock coverage on television, but he had no way of connecting with those who shared his views. Nor was there a quick, readily available tool for an ordinary citizen to gather information on his own. In 1960, communication was a one-way street, and information was fundamentally inaccessible. The whole idea of summoning up data or reaching thousands of individuals with the touch of a finger was a science-fiction fantasy.

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  Communication, Home, Ideas

  Jeff Greenfield (2011). “Then Everything Changed: Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics: JFK, RFK, Carter, Ford, Reaga n”, p.36, Penguin

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• Television is one of the most fickle businesses that there are, you are in favour one minute and out the next.

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  Business, Favour, Fickle

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• I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math.

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  Writing, Math, Thinking

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• In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.

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  Art, Political, Black

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• Protestations of indifference to higher office are hard to take seriously when the 'non-candidate' is busily engaged in testing the waters.

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  Water, Office, Indifference

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• Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot .

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  Fancy, Prime, Shots

  "Blog, Day 3" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. July 28, 2004.

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