Quotes by Jonathan Alter

Jonathan Alter

Almost no one under 60 remembers what fundraising was like before Watergate. Until the 1970s, campaign money was collected by “bagmen,” familiar characters from the world of organized crime. As fans of Boardwalk Empire know, a bagman is a political fixer who walked around with stacks of $100 and $1,000 bills. At lower levels, he used brown paper bags. In presidential campaigns, the cash was more likely to be in briefcases. Classier that way.

Character

Fundraising

Presidential

By laying the groundwork for a system centered on home ownership rather than the public housing popular in Europe, the New Deal made possible the great postwar housing boom that populated the Sun Belt and boosted millions of Americans into the middle class, where, ironically, they often became Republicans.

Class

Europe

Home

Every patient reacts a little differently, both biologically and psychologically. The only constant in cancer is inconstancy; the only certainty is a future of uncertainty, a truism for all of modern life but one made vivid by life-threatening illness.

Cancer

Littles

Modern Life

I think it’s a terrible system, but money in politics is like water running downhill — it finds its way.

Running

Thinking

Water

If Franz Kafka were alive today he’d be writing about customer service.

Alive

Live For Today

Writing

If it’s easy for the government to learn about us, it should be easier for us to learn about the government.

Easier

Easy

Government

In the press grandstand where I watched Discovery rise against the cloudless sky, the media hit the abort button on cynicism. The Earth shook to the sounds of man, three miles away. The candle lit. . . only someone stripped of awe can leave a launch untouched.

Media

Men

Sky

It sometimes takes a while for executives to figure out that the reporters they think of as little bugs to be squashed or spun can be more powerful than they are.

Littles

Powerful

Thinking

Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate.

Convince

Emotion

Logic

Millions of Americans would still despair in the eight long years of the Depression that lay ahead and many of their individual dreams would be dashed on the rocks of economic hardship. But collectively, the country was in a new place, with a new confidence that the federal government would actively try to solve problems rather than fiddle or cater to the rich. Hope was no longer for Pollyannas; the cynics about the American system were in retreat.

Country

Dream

Eight

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Alive

Analyzing

Art

Cancer

Character

Class

Compromise

Convince

Country

Done

Dream

Easier

Easy

Education

Eight

Emotion

Europe

Fundraising

Government

Hands

Home

House

Ideas

Incompetence

Jobs

Journalism

Keys

Littles

Live For Today

Logic

Loyalty

Media

Men

Modern Life

News

Powerful

Presidential

Problem

Reality

Running

Silly

Sky

Stones

Teaching

Thinking

Two

United States

War

Warfare

Water

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Quotes by Jonathan Alter

Jonathan Alter

Every patient reacts a little differently, both biologically and psychologically. The only constant in cancer is inconstancy; the only certainty is a future of uncertainty, a truism for all of modern life but one made vivid by life-threatening illness.

I think it’s a terrible system, but money in politics is like water running downhill — it finds its way.

If Franz Kafka were alive today he’d be writing about customer service.

If it’s easy for the government to learn about us, it should be easier for us to learn about the government.

In the press grandstand where I watched Discovery rise against the cloudless sky, the media hit the abort button on cynicism. The Earth shook to the sounds of man, three miles away. The candle lit. . . only someone stripped of awe can leave a launch untouched.

It sometimes takes a while for executives to figure out that the reporters they think of as little bugs to be squashed or spun can be more powerful than they are.

Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate.

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