“The phone rang. It was a familiar voice. It was Alan Greenspan. Paul O'Neill had tried to stay in touch with people who had served under Gerald Ford, and he'd been reasonably conscientious about it. Alan Greenspan was the exception.… — 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
