Ron Suskind
Ron Suskind
Ronald Steven "Ron" Suskind is a Pulitzer Prize winning American journalist and best-selling author. He was the senior national affairs writer for The Wall Street Journal from 1993 to 2000 and has published the books A Hope in the Unseen, The Price of Loyalty, The One Percent Doctrine, The Way of the World, Confidence Men, and his memoir Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism. He won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for articles in the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth20 November 1959
CountryUnited States of America
Haven't we already given money to rich people... Shouldn't we be giving money to the middle?
A carefully vetted group of more than 240 executives, economists, and even a few labor leaders was being assembled. They'd seem diverse and independent to the untrained eye. In fact, nearly every one would be a Bush supporter and many were major fundraisers. Attendance was, in a way, a reward for support.
He got the documents from lawyers at the Treasury Department when he made a request after he left.
Other administrations ceded to fact, and saw the benefit - the value - to meaningful public dialogue based on fact. They understood that was one of their obligations, to engage with people who were there to ask pointed and pertinent questions and demand answers to them. They understood that's how it worked and that that was the precedent. This administration has said, 'What does that have to do with me'?
We are an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.
Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.
Confidence is the public face of competence,
It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them.
Message matters. Message matters almost as much as actions.
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.
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.
Al-Qaeda has a kind of loose, almost entrepreneurial structure with lots of cells in various countries that are semi-independent.
The informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere.
The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.