Jonathan Alter

I think it's a terrible system, but money in politics is like water running downhill -- it finds its way.

— Jonathan Alter

With his ABC News experience, perhaps Pierre Salinger's next job could be cohosting-with Oliver Stone-a 24-hour Conspiracy Network.

— Jonathan Alter

By laying the groundwork for a system centered on home ownership rather than the public housing popular in Europe, the New Deal…

— Jonathan Alter

Almost no one under 60 remembers what fundraising was like before Watergate. Until the 1970s, campaign money was collected by "bagmen," familiar…

— Jonathan Alter

Every patient reacts a little differently, both biologically and psychologically. The only constant in cancer is inconstancy; the only certainty is a…

— Jonathan Alter

The only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ideas, making…

— Jonathan Alter

If it's easy for the government to learn about us, it should be easier for us to learn about the government.

— Jonathan Alter

It sometimes takes a while for executives to figure out that the reporters they think of as little bugs to be squashed…

— Jonathan Alter

Unless the digital divide is narrowed soon, the United States may be headed to the class warfare of a century ago, the…

— Jonathan Alter

Millions of Americans would still despair in the eight long years of the Depression that lay ahead and many of their individual…

— Jonathan Alter

The basic problem is with the business model of journalism. That business model is premised on the idea that talk is cheap…

— Jonathan Alter

The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who…

— Jonathan Alter

If Franz Kafka were alive today he'd be writing about customer service.

— Jonathan Alter

They say that 'history is an argument without end.' In Thompson's skillful hands, this momentous argument between two old friends on the…

— Jonathan Alter

If it's easy for the government to learn about us, it should be easier for us to learn about the government, what…

— Jonathan Alter

Obama was willing to compromise and Republicans were not. That's not a biased statement. One of my problems with the limitations of…

— Jonathan Alter

Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate.

— Jonathan Alter

The price of loyalty is incompetence.

— Jonathan Alter

The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics

— Jonathan Alter

In the press grandstand where I watched Discovery rise against the cloudless sky, the media hit the abort button on cynicism. The…

— Jonathan Alter