Evan Thomas Quotes

• As a farmer, you learn quick: You don't get anything that you don't work hard for.

  Evan Thomas

  Hard Work, Farmers, Hard

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• The media, I think, wants Kerry to win. And I think they're going to portray Kerry and Edwards - I'm talking about the establishment media, not Fox - but they're going to portray - they're going to portray Kerry and Edwards as the young and dynamic and optimistic and all this. There's going to be this glow about them this summer, that is going to be worth - collective glow, the two of them, that's going to be worth maybe 15 points.

  Evan Thomas

  Winning, Thinking, Media

  "FOX News Watch" with Eric Burns, www.foxnews.com. July 17, 2004.

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• A Lincolnesque leader is confident enough to be humble - to not feel the need to bluster or dominate, but to be sufficiently sure of one's own judgment and self-worth to really listen and not be threatened by contrary advice.

  Evan Thomas

  Leadership, Humble, Self Worth

  Evan Thomas, Staff of Newsweek (2009). “A Long Time Coming: The Inspiring, Combative 2008 Campaign and the Historic Election of Barack Obama”, p.186, PublicAffairs

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• Los grandes historiadores pueden hacer que el descubrimiento de la historia real sea más emocionante que el mito romántico. Stacy Schiff, gran historiadora y magnífica escritora, desvela la verdadera Cleopatra, una mujer mucho más interesante que la versión de Hollywood y, al fin y al cabo, una reina formidable.

  Evan Thomas

  Queens, Real, Discovery

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• We're understanding what Obama is. He is the great teacher. He is this guy that stands above everybody. There's some condescension in it, but he stands above everybody and says, 'Now, listen. You people have to stop blaming each other unreasonably. You have to get along here and I am going to show you the way.' It is a pretty brave role in many ways.

  Evan Thomas

  Teacher, People, Guy

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• There is a liberal bias. It's demonstrable. You look at some statistics. About 85 percent of the reporters who cover the White House vote Democratic, they have for a long time. There is a, particularly at the networks, at the lower levels, among the editors and the so-called infrastructure, there is a liberal bias.

  Evan Thomas

  Editors, White, Long

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• I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above — above the world, he's sort of God.

  Evan Thomas

  Country, Mean, World

  "Newsweek's Evan Thomas: Obama Is 'Sort of God'". "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.newsbusters.org. June 5, 2009.

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• I don't think the Republicans would appreciate the comparison, but they're exactly like the Labor Party in England in the 1970s. They're letting their extremists take them straight down. The same thing is going to happen - they had to disappear for a while and when they reinvented themselves they did it with moderates, they did it with Tony Blair.

  Evan Thomas

  Party, Thinking, Appreciate

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• No se debería ver morir a niños estadounidenses en las noticias de la noche. Las guerras deberían terminar en tres días o menos, o antes de que el Congreso invoque la Resolución de Poderes de Guerra.

  Evan Thomas

  War, Boys, Dying

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• Rush Limbaugh is good for the party. Drive it all the way down, take it down as low as it can go, make complete fools of themselves, because it's always darkest before the dawn, and then maybe a moderate can come in and rescue them.

  Evan Thomas

  Party, Dawn, Way

  "Thomas & Totenberg Excuse Pelosi; Thomas Hopes 'Moderate' Will Save GOP from Limbaugh" by Brent Baker, www.newsbusters.org. May 16, 2009.

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• Wars should be over in three days or less...and the American people must be all for it from the outset.

  Evan Thomas

  Paz, Guerra, Personas

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• With grace and a keen appreciation of human nature, Nicholas Thompson has written a revealing, moving history of the Cold War through two fascinating men.

  Evan Thomas

  Appreciation, War, Moving

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• Bush's life is that a fundamentally decent man presided over a moment when politics got meaner and rougher. '88 was the year of the handler, of bringing in political consultants who played very hard and very tough.

  Evan Thomas

  Men, Years, Political

  "George H.W. Bush". "The Presidents", www.pbs.org. May 5, 2008.

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