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.
Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.
Confidence is the public face of competence,
Message matters. Message matters almost as much as actions.
The informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere.
Two sons, they'll both be presidents after they win their Nobel Prizes. And the daughters, they'll be prima ballerinas before they become the president of Princeton and start their Internet company. And I just started to think about What's the conventional load of those expectations you carry around? You have to pull them out one by one and smash them in the corner. You realize the pile is quite high. But in a way, it becomes oddly liberating to do that.
These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.