All David Remnick Quotes
- What about our refusal to look squarely at the degradation of the planet we inhabit? In the last election cycle many candidates refused even to… Accepting
- Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what's more, the population will hardly protest the extinction. Aware
- The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known. Apparatus
- A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could… Anyone
- Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work. Clearly
- I actually have great hopes for the future. Funny
- Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords. Al
- I have to always remember, writing is really hard. Always Remember
- I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later. Difference
- I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness. Achievement
- Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time. Cartoon
- I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one. Caro
- I'm not the slowest writer that you know. Funny
- I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many… Culture
- Speaking to the subject is the most overrated thing in journalism, Inspirational
- 100% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.100 Cartoon
- Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going… All
- The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The… Beautiful
- If this day means anything, it means that you are now in the contingent of the responsible. You must be kind, yes, but you must… Backs
- 98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying. Cartoons
- Reform is not a period of retreat. Period
- There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia. Activity
- Not all political prisoners are innocents. All
- You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long. Another Year
- Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant… Complex