Ron Suskind Quotes

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• Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.

  Ron Suskind

  Faces, Action, Competence

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• The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.

  Ron Suskind

  Faith, Unseen, Substance

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• Confidence is the public face of competence.

  Ron Suskind

  Faces, Competence

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• Many years later, a psychiatrist friend of mine said something to us. He said, "Respect denial." It's a powerful force.

  Ron Suskind

  Powerful, Years, Denial

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them.

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  Passion, People, One Thing

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• Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.

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  Self Confidence, Degrees, Bonus

  Ron Suskind (2012). “Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President”, p.84, Harper Collins

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• If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you did today, nobody from the White House will ever talk to you again

  Ron Suskind

  Writing, White, House

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• [Barack Obama] says that he thinks America felt better, more confident, because Washington was not simply in a gridlock, in stasis, where nothing was being done. And he talks about that as a positive.

  Ron Suskind

  Thinking, America, Done

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Who besides guys like me are part of the reality-based community?

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  Reality, Community, Guy

  "Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush" by Ron Suskind, www.nytimes.com. October 17, 2004.

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• The key is to put your outrage in a place where you can get it when you need to, but not have it bubble up so much, especially when you're asked to explain new ideas or explain what you observed two people who share none of your experiences.

  Ron Suskind

  Keys, Ideas, Two

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• These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.

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  Lobbyists, Humans, Human Beings

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• [Barack Obama] says at one point, "[Jimmy] Carter, [Bill] Clinton and I suffer from," what he called, "the policy wonk's disease."

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  Suffering, Disease, Bills

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I absolutely reject that idea that the press is liberal and what it does is liberal. In my view, it's like accusing a doctor of malpractice or a lawyer of malfeasance.

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  Doctors, Views, Ideas

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• It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying

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  Kids, Irony, Exciting

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• For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes.

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  Thinking, Sometimes, Upbeat

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• The President [Barack Obama], I think if you look at it from his shoes, you know, was facing a very difficult situation where he had to own Washington, tame New York, save a collapsing economy, with a collapsed financial system. He moved, I think, to a team that he felt was tried and true, in terms of dealing with financial crisis. That was his decision.

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  New York, Team, Thinking

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders -- management skills.

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  Skills, Leader, Littles

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• I don't have to deal with the issues of the daily news cycle.

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  Issues, News, Deals

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• When you get people standing up saying, 'I'm going to just tell the truth; what do we have to fear?,' it encourages others, and it creates a counterresponse.

  Ron Suskind

  People, Telling The Truth, Standing

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• There are many instances in which those at the uppermost levels of the White House were feeling the President [Barack Obama] was not fully informed of the flow of events and, in some cases, where policies were going in the White House.

  Ron Suskind

  White, House, Feelings

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Message matters. Message matters almost as much as actions.

  Ron Suskind

  Messages, Matter, Action

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• I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status.

  Ron Suskind

  Years, Important, Term

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• Al-Qaeda has a kind of loose, almost entrepreneurial structure with lots of cells in various countries that are semi-independent.

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  Country, Independent, Cells

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• Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

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  Conviction, Rumble, Furnaces

  Ron Suskind (2010). “A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League”, p.114, Broadway Books

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• Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.

  Ron Suskind

  Fall, Civilization, America

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