"These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely……" — Ron Suskind
"These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings."
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35 Quotes by Ron Suskind
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Who besides guys like me are part of the reality-based community?
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We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -…
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Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.
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It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them.
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If you happened to be born on third base, you didn't rub it in the face of the guy who…
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Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.
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A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders -- management skills.
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Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.
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Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.
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Summers was simply a master explainer, able to deftly boil down the complexities of economic and financial, and to put…
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Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff…
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For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes.
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