Adam Clymer famous quotes

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When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.
-- Adam Clymer

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I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.
-- Adam Clymer

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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
-- Adam Clymer

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There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.
-- Adam Clymer

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Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language.
-- Adam Clymer

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Ted Kennedy's achievements as a senator have towered over his time, changing the lives of far more Americans than remember the name Mary Jo Kopechne.
-- Adam Clymer

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Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.
My depth of purse is not so great Nor yet my bibliophilic greed, That merely buying doth elate: The books I buy I like to read: Still e'en when dawdling in a mead, Beneath a cloudless summer sky, By bank of Thames, or Tyne, or Tweed, The books I read â€” I like to buy.
As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.
It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?
If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
Still, not much of a reason to live, is it? The fear of being punished for killing yourself.
There are lots of reasons why a woman stays with a man, even when she's given up on changing him and can predict with certainty the shape that the rest of her life with him is going to take.
The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous...
Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.

Adam Clymer famous quotes

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