"Affirmative action was always racial justice on the…" — Joe Klein
"Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap."
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32 Quotes by Joe Klein
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Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy…
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Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.
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Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary…
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I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to…
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Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists…
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You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.
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For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for…
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Barack Obama's inspirational whoosh to the presidency in 2008 was unusual. Most campaigns are less exhilarating; indeed, they are downright…
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For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and…
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I think that if you make a strong statement of principle, even if the folks disagree with you, people will…
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I've been described as a grizzled political veteran.
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Political courage requires clarity.
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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