All David Remnick Quotes
- 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
- The Cold War was wildly expensive and consumed the entire globe. Cold
- My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the prehistory of 9/11,… Afghanistan
- I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate. Dealing
- Very rarely is there a spike in news-stand sales. News
- Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving. Cold
- If the story is good enough, if it's imaginative enough, if it's moving enough it is going to reach deeper than the level of sheer… Achievement
- To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party. Absence
- The sense of urgency, the sense of moment, has arrived. Arrived
- We don't assign stories based on gender, but now that Ruth Davis Konigsberg has helpfully shown us the error of our ways, henceforth all assignments… All