Joe Klein Quotes

• Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

  Joe Klein

  Cynicism, Mediocre, Insight

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• You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.

  Joe Klein

  News, Comedy, Shows

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• Barack Obama's inspirational whoosh to the presidency in 2008 was unusual. Most campaigns are less exhilarating; indeed, they are downright disappointing - until someone wins.

  Joe Klein

  Inspirational, Winning, Campaigns

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• You can be as critical as you want of Black Lives Matter. I'm critical of him, too. But to say that they have caused shooting of police officers, I think is a bridge too far.

  Joe Klein

  Thinking, Police, Black

  Fuente: www.foxnews.com

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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.

  Joe Klein

  Cynical, Journalism, Cynicism

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• We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.

  Joe Klein

  Analyzing, Idiotic, Journalist

  "'Primary Colors' Author Joe Klein Talks About Political Truth and Fiction". "Crossfire" with Mary Matalin, Bill Press, www.cnn.com. May 2, 2000.

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• Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible.

  Joe Klein

  Practice, Journalism, Tradition

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• I believe, I believe that the people who voted in those primaries for Donald Trump were at least helping him along with his message of hate toward immigrants, toward Muslims.

  Joe Klein

  Odio, Creer, Gente

  Fuente: www.foxnews.com

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• La discriminación positiva siempre fue justicia racial barata.

  Joe Klein

  Justice, Action, Affirmative

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• La diversidad se ha inscrito en el ADN de la vida estadounidense; cualquier institución que carezca de un abanico arco iris ha llegado a parecer disminuida, si no enferma.

  Joe Klein

  Dna, Rainbow, Diversity

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• Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.

  Joe Klein

  Dictator, Delusional, Diplomacy

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• The two-war strategy was a product of the cold war, when we had to have the ability to fight the Russians on the plains of Europe and fight the Chinese on the Korean peninsula at the same time. That costs an awful lot of money.

  Joe Klein

  War, Fighting, Europe

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. September 14, 2013.

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• You know, larger-than-life politicians have larger-than-life strengths and larger-than-life weaknesses.

  Joe Klein

  Weakness, Larger Than Life, Politician

  "True colours" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2006.

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• For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude.

  Joe Klein

  Sorry, Political, Ineptitude

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• I've been described as a grizzled political veteran.

  Joe Klein

  Political, Veteran

  "'Primary Colors' Author Joe Klein Talks About Political Truth and Fiction". "Crossfire" with Mary Matalin, Bill Press, www.cnn.com. May 2, 2000.

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• We`re facing a very different sort of threat now, a more amorphous threat, al Qaeda, terrorism, and so on. And so the military has abandoned the two-war strategy.

  Joe Klein

  Military, War, Two

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. September 14, 2013.

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• Political courage requires clarity. The Obama Administration chose the tortured route of arguing the legality of the individual mandate via the interstate commerce clause for one simple reason: it did not want to take the political risk of allowing opponents to call it a tax increase. That was stupid. The Republicans were calling it a tax increase anyway.

  Joe Klein

  Political, Clarity, Political Courage

  "How To Improve ObamaCare" by Joe Klein, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 29, 2012.

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• Americans who feel the most ignored these days are not the screamers. They are the solid citizens who are sick to death of pols who play to the rant.

  Joe Klein

  Play, Sick, Citizens

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• We should never go to war unless we have been attacked or are under direct, immediate threat of attack. Never. And never again.

  Joe Klein

  War, Should, Threat

  "Iraq: Requiem for a Profound Misadventure". content.time.com. August 05, 2010.

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• Ya sabes, más grande que la vida es siempre mejor que más pequeño que la vida en los políticos. Y, ya sabes, Dios nos libre de los mediocres.

  Joe Klein

  Mediocrity, Larger Than Life, Life Is

  "'Primary Colors' Author Joe Klein Talks About Political Truth and Fiction". "Crossfire" with Mary Matalin, Bill Press, www.cnn.com. May 2, 2000.

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• What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like.

  Joe Klein

  Character, Novel

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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.

  Joe Klein

  Fuerte, Pensamiento, Gente

  "Joe Klein on the State of Democracy in America". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. April 22, 2006.

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• I'm in favour of politicians having extra-marital relationships. Oh yeah. It makes them more understanding of the flaws that the rest of us have.

  Joe Klein

  Understanding, Favour, Flaws

  "Man with no name". Interview with Michael Ellison, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2000.

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• Ya en el segundo mandato de George W. Bush, cuando el realismo diplomático empezó a superar a la belicosidad insensata, el presidente desarrolló uno de sus apodos patentados para los dos periodistas neoconservadores más poderosos, William Kristol y Charles Krauthammer: los llamó "los chicos bomba".

  Joe Klein

  Powerful, Boys, Two

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• Bush the Elder's stature as president grows with every passing year. He was the finest foreign policy president I've ever covered and a man who defied his party on tax increases while imposing budget restrictions on the Democrats.

  Joe Klein

  Party, Men, Years

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