David Remnick Quotes

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• Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.

  David Remnick

  Pressure, Journalism, Kind

  "David Remnick Looks Back On Tough Decisions As 'The New Yorker' Turns 90". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 18, 2015.

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• A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.

  David Remnick

  Hero, Writing, Principles

  "The quiet American" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2006.

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• The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.

  David Remnick

  Beautiful, Jobs, Crazy

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• The notion that somehow through a trade war or protectionism or magical thinking that we're going to return to a romanticized economic past is, in the end, going to be an illusion. And a severe disappointment to millions of decent, hard-working people.

  David Remnick

  Disappointment, War, Hard Work

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We should put pressure on power and write the truth and write relentlessly and fearlessly. That's the job.

  David Remnick

  Jobs, Writing, Pressure

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Donald Trump's temperament and character is precisely what you would hate to see in your children, much less your president.

  David Remnick

  Children, Hate, Character

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• On Facebook, a lie can seem as convincing to some as an article from SPIEGEL or the Washington Post. That's a problem. I can then like it and like it again and start creating my own media universe, both for me and for my friends, and so we become more and more fenced off from one another.

  David Remnick

  Lying, Media, Creating

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The only reason to be in business is to be great.

  David Remnick

  Reason

  Source: wwd.com

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• Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what's more, the population will hardly protest the extinction.

  David Remnick

  One Day, Population, May

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• Being an editor it's a complicated job, but the last impression I'd want anybody to have is that it's onerous. It's a joy - a complicated joy, but a joy.

  David Remnick

  Joy, Complicated, Impression

  Source: wwd.com

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• I got in journalism for any number of reasons, not least because it's so much fun. Journalism should be in the business of putting pressure on power, finding out the truth, of shining a light on injustice, of, when appropriate, being amusing and entertaining - it's a complicated and varied beast, journalism.

  David Remnick

  Fun, Light, Numbers

  "Media People: The New Yorker’s David Remnick". Interview with Alexandra Steigrad, wwd.com. October 10, 2014.

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• The minority vote is growing, which is part of the alarm of so many Republicans and why Trump constantly whipped up their alarm with his racist statements.

  David Remnick

  Alarms, Minorities, Racist

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If this day means anything, it means that you are now in the contingent of the responsible. You must be kind, yes, but you must also look beyond your own house. We're depending on you for your efforts and your vision. We are depending on your eye and your imagination to identify what wrongs exist and persist, and on your hands, your backs, your efforts, to right them.

  David Remnick

  Graduation, Mean, Eye

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• I don't know that Donald Trump is anything more to Putin than what Lenin called a poleznye durak, a useful idiot.

  David Remnick

  Idiot, Putin, Trump

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.

  David Remnick

  Party, Mafia, World

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• Being nervous, first of all, puts you at a distinct disadvantage, and if you've really prepared and if you've really thought through how to start the conversation, things start to fall into place. There are other things I get nervous about, but not that.

  David Remnick

  Fall, Nervous, Fall Into Place

  Source: wwd.com

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• 100% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.100

  David Remnick

  Lying, People, Cartoon

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• I would also like to see Russia not interfere in our elections.

  David Remnick

  Russia, Election, Interfere

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think we should be alarmed, watchful, and, as journalists, rigorous and fearless. I think we should be alert.

  David Remnick

  Thinking, Fearless, Should

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There are two forms of populism, left-wing populism and right-wing populism. Right-wing populism requires the denigration of an "Other." Left-wing populism tends to be about the haves and have-nots.

  David Remnick

  Wings, Two, Form

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to jolt the complacent.

  David Remnick

  Giving, Stories, Desperate

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• I use social media every day. I don't have a Twitter account, but not because I'm a dinosaur about it. I have enough of a platform here. People in my position who do it tend to use it in a promotional way or in a hamstrung way. I look at Twitter all the time as a news tool or for cultural conversation. I've used it in my reporting. It's very useful.

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  People, Social Media, Enough

  Source: wwd.com

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• I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since.

  David Remnick

  Years, Culture, Four

  "Ask the Author Live: David Remnick on Russia and Putin". Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. December 9, 2011.

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• You have to understand that a lot of the working class is not white.

  David Remnick

  Class, White, Working Class

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I don't think there will be fascism in America, but we have to do everything we can to fight against it.

  David Remnick

  Fighting, Thinking, America

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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