Ron Suskind Quotes

The idea that our son would be like Raymond Babbitt was a shocking reordering of everything. And something we couldn't quite fathom, really. — Ron Suskind

This is not an issue of geography. He IS of two worlds wherever he goes. — Ron Suskind

The problems afflicting a nation are always in equal measure spiritual crises. — Ron Suskind

The fact is, most journalists I know are not particularly political. They move around a lot. — Ron Suskind

In this era of public survival through continuous storytelling, people want someone who might surprise them. — Ron Suskind

Necessity and desperation birth resourcefulness. — Ron Suskind

Public servants in this Europe often do their best when they stop caring about whether they'll be fired. — Ron Suskind

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

The fact is, I can vote for anybody; independents, Republicans, Democrats. But I'm a registered Democrat in the District of Columbia. — Ron Suskind

Security is by far the city's predominant business. — Ron Suskind

One world leader warned another the error of relying on the capability you have rather than developing the capability you need. — Ron Suskind

I don't have to deal with the issues of the daily news cycle. — Ron Suskind

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

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

Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches. — Ron Suskind

I'm [Paul O'Neill] an old guy, and I'm rich. And there's nothing they can do to hurt me. — Ron Suskind

I'm a partisan, too. I'm in favor of AUTHENTICITY. US State Department veteran and U.N. refugee official Wendy Chamberlain — Ron Suskind

You try to hold on to some notions you might have had before, that this will somehow work out, this is a spell that will lift or be broken. — Ron Suskind

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

If the opposite of certainty is doubt, humility must lie somewhere between the two, — Ron Suskind

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

He was rebuilt, reconstituted by vengeance dressed up as high purpose. — Ron Suskind

What can we do? It's not dismissive or resigned. He really wants to know. — Ron Suskind

The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen. — Ron Suskind

A sense of messianic purpose makes the national interest almost indistinguishable from the political interests of the president. — Ron Suskind

The whole game was about confidence, as it always was. Everything was fine - until it wasn't. — Ron Suskind

Religions find lasting utility in terms of prescription or parameter, rules for the conduct of human affairs. — Ron Suskind

Message matters. Message matters almost as much as actions. — Ron Suskind

Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering. — Ron Suskind

Push the needle into some middle range of guarded optimism. — Ron Suskind

A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders
management skills. — Ron Suskind

Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence. — Ron Suskind

Author describes auto CEO's decisions to drive rather than fly to Washington as "showy penitence". — Ron Suskind

The government of the world's most powerful nation is running furiously in place. — Ron Suskind

He (Larry Summers) can frame arguments with such force and conviction that people think he knows more than he does. — Ron Suskind

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

He is now judging himself, harshly, by his captors' rules. — Ron Suskind

The informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere. — Ron Suskind

Every person has their pantheon - the Bible, Hollywood, Shakespeare - their way of understanding the world. — Ron Suskind

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

Who besides guys like me are part of the reality-based community? — Ron Suskind

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

We are reformers in the spring, but iin autumn we stand by the old. Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ron Suskind

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious. — Ron Suskind

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

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