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

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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 the Washington Post and Salon and Slate, most of them have Ivy League educations.

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When politicians began to see that every last thing that they did in public could be broadcast to a mass audience, the fact that the stakes were so much higher now that every moment became fraught caused them to become more cautious, and the consultants very gradually but inevitably became literal reactionaries.

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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 testing to me.

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I think that if you make a strong statement of principle, even if the folks disagree with you, people will respect you for it.

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You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.

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I've been described as a grizzled political veteran.

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There's a basic law, Klein's second, or third, or fourth law of politics in the TV age, which is warm always beats cold, with the exception of Richard Nixon. The nicer guy usually wins.

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: September 7th, 1946

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