Quotes by Jeff Greenfield

Jeff Greenfield

A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or watch the round-the-clock coverage on television, but he had no way of connecting with those who shared his views. Nor was there a quick, readily available tool for an ordinary citizen to gather information on his own. In 1960, communication was a one-way street, and information was fundamentally inaccessible. The whole idea of summoning up data or reaching thousands of individuals with the touch of a finger was a science-fiction fantasy.

Communication

Home

Ideas

After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the ’90s, I came away believing that the case for scrapping it is less obvious than I originally thought.

Believe

College

Mystery

As a general proposition, campaigns do not linger on the vice presidential nominee. When they have, it’s always meant very bad news for the ticket. Think of Spiro Agnew’s foot-in-mouth disease; Tom Eagleton’s medical history; the real estate holdings of Geraldine Ferraro’s husband; the unbearable lightness of Dan Quayle; Sarah Palin’s reading list.

Husband

Reading

Real

As a personal matter, I stopped voting more than a decade ago, on the grounds that it helped me as an analyst not to think about making a choice in the voting booth.

Choices

Thinking

Voting

By every measure, John Kennedy’s sex life was compulsive and reckless. At one level, it had clear public consequences. Knowledge of Kennedy’s behavior gave FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover absolute job security, as well as the potential power to derail Kennedy’s re-election had he survived assassination.

Directors

Jobs

Sex

Conservatives may worship Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand,’ but for Obama, the helping hand comes in large measure from the public, not the private sector. To call this ‘socialism’ is to do violence to the word and to the concept. To call it ‘un-American’ is a smear.

Hands

Invisible Hand

May

Describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial: These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.

Murder

People

Trials

F.D.R. had to deal with Southern segregationists – and outright racists – who held power in Congress, so he had to yield to that power in order to get his New Deal legislation passed.

Order

Southern

Yield

For millions, Roger Ebert will be remembered as a writer and television personality who brought a sense of passion and excellence to his craft. For me, he is a man who fused joy and courage as few others ever have. My life was enriched by having such a friend; it is poorer for losing such a friend.

Men

Passion

Personality

George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower all rode their wartime heroics into the White House.

Dwight Eisenhower

House

White

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Art

Baseball

Believe

Black

Business

Children

Choices

College

Communication

Conspiracy

Couple

Dimes

Directors

Dream

Ducks

Dwight Eisenhower

Evil

Eye

Fancy

Fate

Father

Favour

Fickle

Fighting

Firsts

Freedom

Gay

Giving

Government

Hands

Harry Truman

Home

Horse

House

Husband

Ideas

Indifference

Invisible Hand

Jobs

Joy

Jumping

Law

Leader

Looks

Math

May

Men

Military

Murder

Mystery

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Quotes by Jeff Greenfield

Jeff Greenfield

After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the ’90s, I came away believing that the case for scrapping it is less obvious than I originally thought.

As a personal matter, I stopped voting more than a decade ago, on the grounds that it helped me as an analyst not to think about making a choice in the voting booth.

Conservatives may worship Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand,’ but for Obama, the helping hand comes in large measure from the public, not the private sector. To call this ‘socialism’ is to do violence to the word and to the concept. To call it ‘un-American’ is a smear.

Describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial: These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.

F.D.R. had to deal with Southern segregationists – and outright racists – who held power in Congress, so he had to yield to that power in order to get his New Deal legislation passed.

For millions, Roger Ebert will be remembered as a writer and television personality who brought a sense of passion and excellence to his craft. For me, he is a man who fused joy and courage as few others ever have. My life was enriched by having such a friend; it is poorer for losing such a friend.

George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower all rode their wartime heroics into the White House.

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