Joe Klein Quotes

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• 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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• 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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• 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

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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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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• 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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• Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.

  Joe Klein

  Justice, Action, Affirmative

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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

  Hate, Believe, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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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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• Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased.

  Joe Klein

  Dna, Rainbow, Diversity

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

  Joe Klein

  Dictator, Delusional, Diplomacy

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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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• I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should not be rewarded. But often it isn't, and common decency requires that we take care of the least of these.

  Joe Klein

  Believe, School, Inappropriate Behavior

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• I came to political consciousness with John F. Kennedy's magnificent 1961 Inaugural Address. It seemed the start of something fresh and exciting, and it was.

  Joe Klein

  Political, Addresses, Consciousness

  "The Ice Is Breaking" by Joe Klein, content.time.com. February 04, 2013.

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• George W. Bush will surely deserve that woolliest of all peace prizes, the Nobel.

  Joe Klein

  Nobel, Prize, Deserve

  "More Neo-Nonsense". swampland.time.com. July 30, 2008.

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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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• For the past several years, I've been harboring a fantasy, a last political crusade for the baby-boom generation. We, who started on the path of righteousness, marching for civil rights and against the war in Vietnam, need to find an appropriately high-minded approach to life's exit ramp.

  Joe Klein

  Baby, War, Past

  "Why Legalizing Marijuana Makes Sense" by Joe Klein, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2009.

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• Bill Clinton gives the appearance of taking stands-for some sort of tax cut, some sort of welfare reform, some sort of balanced budget-but these are ploys, mirages: they exist only to undermine positions taken by the Republicans. He doesn't fight for anything substantive-except of course, re-election. ...He has fallen into the dangerous habit of lip synching the presidency: he gives the appearance of leadership, but not the substance.

  Joe Klein

  Taken, Fighting, Cutting

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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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• The Democrats current crudeness is a function of their desperation, and the imminent ratification of Howard Dean, the least charming presidential candidate in recent memory, as their party chairman only serves to punctuate the problem.

  Joe Klein

  Memories, Party, Presidential

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• You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.

  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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