"Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and……" — Joe Klein
"Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel."
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32 Quotes by Joe Klein
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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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We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.
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More Arrogance Quotes
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What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music,…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
— Isaac Asimov
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But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in…
— Eric Bana
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.
— Joe Biden
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All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong.…
— Theodore Bikel
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The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
— Aesop
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The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness…
— Alain de Botton
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It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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