If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost immediately when it appears in the paper or a magazine, that somebody gets called into the boss's office.… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
The President [Barack Obama] is very focused on [healthcare]. He, of course, is also writing this speech at high speed. And right coming up… — Ron Suskind Copy Share
Reaching out to any fellow ghetto kids is an act he puts in the same category as doing drugs: the initial rush of warmth… — Ron Suskind Copy Share
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… — Ron Suskind Copy Share
“Freshmen spend in unfathomable sitting on their beds – heads against the wall or propped pillows, semistudying or not, listening to music, catching a… — Ron Suskind Copy Share
If you happened to be born on third base, you didn't rub it in the face of the guy who wasn't even born in… — Ron Suskind Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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… — Ron Suskind Copy Share
“If the breadth of perspectives is wide enough to represent the fullest range of views, consensus is unlikely. If consensus is swiftly achieved, it… — Ron Suskind Copy Share
“Two hours a day for two days per week. Four hours. At $7.25 an hour, that gave him a gross income of $29 a… — Ron Suskind Copy Share
All of the leading terrorism experts are clear on one thing: that in terms of protecting America, we are almost never going to know… — Ron Suskind Copy Share
It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them. — Ron Suskind Copy Share
I think that [Barack Obama] does say something that's - that is telling on that score, when he talks about the [George W.] Bush… — Ron Suskind Copy Share
[Barack Obama] says that he thinks America felt better, more confident, because Washington was not simply in a gridlock, in stasis, where nothing was… — Ron Suskind Copy Share
You try to hold on to some notions you might have had before, that this will somehow work out, this is a spell that… — Ron Suskind Copy Share
