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  • Once they arrive, affirmative action kids are generally left to sink or swim academically. Brown (University) offers plenty of counseling and tutoring to struggling students, but, as any academic Dean will tell you, it's up to the students to seek it out, something that a drowning minority student will seek to avoid at all costs, fearing it will trumpet a second-class status.

  • These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.

  • Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

    Ron Suskind (2010). “A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League”, p.114, Broadway Books
  • Every person has their pantheon - the Bible, Hollywood, Shakespeare - their way of understanding the world.

    "'A Pathway, Not a Prison'". Interview with Hanna Rosin, www.slate.com. April 1, 2014.
  • By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.

  • Many years later, a psychiatrist friend of mine said something to us. He said, "Respect denial." It's a powerful force.

    Source: www.esquire.com
  • [Barack Obama] says at one point, "[Jimmy] Carter, [Bill] Clinton and I suffer from," what he called, "the policy wonk's disease."

    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • Message matters. Message matters almost as much as actions.

  • The President [Barack Obama], I think if you look at it from his shoes, you know, was facing a very difficult situation where he had to own Washington, tame New York, save a collapsing economy, with a collapsed financial system. He moved, I think, to a team that he felt was tried and true, in terms of dealing with financial crisis. That was his decision.

    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • The key is to put your outrage in a place where you can get it when you need to, but not have it bubble up so much, especially when you're asked to explain new ideas or explain what you observed two people who share none of your experiences.

  • Two sons, they'll both be presidents after they win their Nobel Prizes. And the daughters, they'll be prima ballerinas before they become the president of Princeton and start their Internet company. And I just started to think about What's the conventional load of those expectations you carry around? You have to pull them out one by one and smash them in the corner. You realize the pile is quite high. But in a way, it becomes oddly liberating to do that.

    Source: www.esquire.com
  • All of the leading terrorism experts are clear on one thing: that in terms of protecting America, we are almost never going to know a place or a time of an attack.

  • Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.

  • For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes.

  • I think that [Barack Obama] does say something that's - that is telling on that score, when he talks about the [George W.] Bush tax cuts and the swap he makes after the midterm elections, which is he doesn't agree with the Bush tax cuts.

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    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • The informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere.

  • I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status.

  • Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.

    Ron Suskind (2012). “Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President”, p.84, Harper Collins
  • [Barack Obama] says that he thinks America felt better, more confident, because Washington was not simply in a gridlock, in stasis, where nothing was being done. And he talks about that as a positive.

    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • You try to hold on to some notions you might have had before, that this will somehow work out, this is a spell that will lift or be broken.

    Source: www.esquire.com
  • Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches.

    "The President Knows more than He Lets on". Interview with Matthias Gebauer and Georg Mascolo, www.spiegel.de. October 27, 2006.
  • Summers was simply a master explainer, able to deftly boil down the complexities of economic and financial, and to put them in terms the non-expert could understand. He was brilliant at cultivating a sense of control, even as events spun far beyond what could be managed with any certainty. He could will into being the confidence that eluded others, those less self-assured and, maybe sensibly, on humbler terms with the world.

  • I absolutely reject that idea that the press is liberal and what it does is liberal. In my view, it's like accusing a doctor of malpractice or a lawyer of malfeasance.

  • It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying

  • I think that there's a lot of anxiety out there in people wanting their children to be part of the mainstream, to achieve based on the well-worn yardsticks.

    Source: www.esquire.com
  • Al-Qaeda has a kind of loose, almost entrepreneurial structure with lots of cells in various countries that are semi-independent.

  • The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government.

  • If you happened to be born on third base, you didn't rub it in the face of the guy who wasn't even born in the stadium. Self-interest was generally checked at the door with your coat and hat.

  • The idea that our son would be like Raymond Babbitt was a shocking reordering of everything. And something we couldn't quite fathom, really.

    Source: www.esquire.com
  • The fact is, I can vote for anybody; independents, Republicans, Democrats. But I'm a registered Democrat in the District of Columbia.

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    Ron Suskind

    • Born: November 20, 1959
    • Occupation: Journalist