All Joe Klein Quotes
- I'm in favour of politicians having extra-marital relationships. Oh yeah. It makes them more understanding of the flaws that the rest of us have. Extra
- Back in George W. Bush's second term, when diplomatic realism began to overtake foolish bellicosity, the president developed one of his patented nicknames for the… Began
- Bush the Elder's stature as president grows with every passing year. He was the finest foreign policy president I've ever covered and a man who… Budget
- Ever since John Kennedy, Democrats have had a weakness for dashing younger men like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and, I suppose, Jimmy Carter. They… Al
- In point of fact, 'Simpson-Bowles' has become a symbol, or SimBowl, rather than an actual plan, political shorthand for the process of long-term deficit reduction. Actual
- In 2012 there was a megafoolish, if well-funded, effort by a group called Americans Elect to raise an independent Cincinnatus to run for president via… American
- That was the miracle of Abraham Lincoln, politician. He pursued the high purpose of moving justice forward via the low arts of patronage and patronization.… Abraham
- If every American automatically has health coverage, the age at which Medicare kicks in becomes a less fraught issue. We could gradually raise the age… According
- You know that Moses was spinning like crazy in Exodus XIV through XVII when the Jewish people wanted to go back and become a place… Bit
- When I started in the press there were really ink-stained wretches. Not everybody went to college. Now, everybody at the New York Times and the… College
- When politicians began to see that every last thing that they did in public could be broadcast to a mass audience, the fact that the… Audience
- I invented the psychological histories and the relationship between Jack and Susan Stanton. I didn't know anything about the Clintons. I don't know more about… Clintons