"I got into television because I hated it……" — Jeff Greenfield
"I got into television because I hated it so. I thought, there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen."
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38 Quotes by Jeff Greenfield
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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…
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Describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial: These people have served a longer sentence than some people who…
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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…
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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…
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A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or…
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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…
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If the court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, is that a 'liberal' result enabling gay couples married in…
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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…
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