Joe Klein > Quotes

“Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.”
― Joe Klein, Primary Colors

“Thucydides: “Any nation that draws too great a distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.”
― Joe Klein, Charlie Mike: A True Story of Heroes Who Brought Their Mission Home

“Faith, unaccompanied by rigorous skepticism, is a recipe for myopia and foolishness.”
― Joe Klein

“Ha tizenkettőből kilenc kérdésben egyetért velem, szavazzon rám! Ha tizenkettőből mind a tizenkét kérdésben egyetért velem, forduljon pszichiáterhez!
(Edward I. Koch a New York-i polgármesteri választásokon, 1989-ben)”
― Joe Klein, Politics Lost: How American Democracy Was Trivialized By People Who Think You're Stupid

“But Reich would eventually arrive at a more nuanced conclusion: “Bill Clinton operated by sonar. He emits a huge number of policies, ideas, and initiatives and he sees what kind if response he gets. And where he sees an opportunity to move, he moves.”
― Joe Klein, The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton

“Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future.”
― Joe Klein, Primary Colors

“[N]ever underestimate the educational power of sheer fucking pain.”
― Joe Klein, Primary Colors

“Her inability to see my color—a quality that at first seemed so fetching in her, so exhilarating and optimistic—ultimately became a statement I could not accept: that my color wasn't important. It seemed she did not know me. It was unbearable.”
― Joe Klein, Primary Colors