Jeff Greenfield Quotes - Page 2

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

  Jeff Greenfield

  Business, Favour, Fickle

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

  Jeff Greenfield

  Writing, Math, Thinking

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• Think about one of the most powerful influences on a young child's life - the absence of a father figure. Look back on recent presidents, and you'll find an absent, or weak, or failed father in the lives of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Children, Powerful, Father

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• Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Dream, Freedom, Eye

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• When an office-holder facing a multi-count indictment says that he has decided to spend more time with his family, the proper response is a horse-laugh. When an accused politician explains that a charge of corruption is 'really' an attack on his or her race, religion, ethnic background or gender, the odds that something felonious happened jumps.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Horse, Race, Odds

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• For millions, Roger Ebert will be remembered as a writer and television personality who brought a sense of passion and excellence to his craft. For me, he is a man who fused joy and courage as few others ever have. My life was enriched by having such a friend; it is poorer for losing such a friend.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Passion, Men, Personality

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• If Obama's vision of the public sector is socialism, then so too were the visions of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Harry Truman, Vision, Dwight Eisenhower

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• I grew up in New York City, where we played highly unorganized sports: stick ball, stoop ball, and the occasional game of baseball with no adult supervision.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Sports, Baseball, New York

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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.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Strong, Law, Political

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