Believe Quote by Joe Klein

You know, when George Bush talks about freedom not being America's gift to world but God's gift to all humankind, it smells like market…

— Joe Klein

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…

— Joe Klein

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…

— Joe Klein

We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.

— Joe Klein

You know, larger-than-life politicians have larger-than-life strengths and larger-than-life weaknesses.

— Joe Klein

I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should…

— Joe Klein

That was the miracle of Abraham Lincoln, politician. He pursued the high purpose of moving justice forward via the low arts of patronage and…

— Joe Klein

For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

— Joe Klein

Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.

— Joe Klein

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.

— Joe Klein

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…

— Joe Klein

“Faith, unaccompanied by rigorous skepticism, is a recipe for myopia and foolishness.”

— Joe Klein