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Jeff Greenfield has 38 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.
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Describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial: These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed…
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Victory has 1,000 fathers; defeat has 1,000 kibitzers.
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There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as well be called laws…
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In politics, Bugs Bunny always beats Daffy Duck. Daffy's always going berserk, jumping up and down, yelling. Bugs's got that sly smile,…
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A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or watch the…
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Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.
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Television is one of the most fickle businesses that there are, you are in favour one minute and out the next.
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If the court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, is that a 'liberal' result enabling gay couples married in states where…
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History doesn't turn on a dime; it turns on a plugged nickel.
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I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math.
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In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.
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You know, back in the 1950s and '60s, when J. Edgar Hoover was making the FBI the respected organization it used to…
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By every measure, John Kennedy's sex life was compulsive and reckless. At one level, it had clear public consequences. Knowledge of Kennedy's…
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John F. Kennedy, who seized the White House from Richard Nixon in a frenzied campaign that turned a whole generation of young…
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I grew up with J. Edgar Hoover. He was the G-man, a hero to everybody, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was…
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