John Dickerson Quotes
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When she died, Mom left me her letters and journals. Windows into things I would have been too young to understand when she was alive, or too busy, or too much of a know-it-all.
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The math of durability in McCain's life is extraordinary.
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The culture of undermining sends signals of disrespect. This approach not only saps motivation and undermines teamwork, it also lowers the motivation to work extra hours anticipating what can go wrong.
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Barack Obama's convention speech in 2004 had made him a political star, and he arrived in Iowa to crowds unseen in caucus history.
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You lose yourself in the to-do list and never tackle those big things you promised you would when the campaign came to an end.
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If people feel like the boss doesn't respect them, they don't stretch for the boss.
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Chess masters don't evaluate all the possible moves. They know how to discard 98 percent of the ones they could make and then focus on the best choice of the remaining lot. That's the way expertise works in other fields, too: Wise practitioners recognize familiar patterns and put their creativity, improvisation, and skill toward the marginal cases.
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The goal of the moderator is to illuminate the views of the candidates on the issues that matter the most to voters, and you don't need to be on the side of the party to do that.
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One of the roles of the press is to make sure that the president, in the voice of the people, is telling the truth.
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A president cannot grow a long-term lack of trust in someone with whom they had full confidence the day before.
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When the kids were young, they just wanted to be around us. We were units of comfort and support. As they get older, we work the turnstile, helping the exasperated customer pass whatever temporary obstacle is keeping them from their next exciting thing. Now we're the ones who just like having them in the room.
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My mother, Nancy Dickerson, was a reporter for CBS and NBC and the first female star of television news; my father, Wyatt Dickerson, was a successful businessman. Their parties, from the '60s to the '80s, attracted cabinet officials, movie stars, and presidents.
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I am always looking for material - whether for my notebooks or for Twitter or Instagram - which means I'm looking for meaning.
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Michael Flynn was forced to resign, we are told, because he told a big lie. But what about the little ones?
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Would most politicians have gone to a meeting with someone advertised as being an agent of the Russian government?
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In the 2012 campaign, the president successfully transformed the most intense conservative positions into liabilities on immigration and the role of government.
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There's the human side of people who are in public life that connects people. Whether it's favorable or unfavorable, it gives them some connection with the person who's onstage, and I think those connections are edifying.
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One of the worries about a presidency is that everybody tells you yes. Nobody helps you figure out where your blind spots are.
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A number of Donald Trump's supporters told me during the campaign they had faith that he would be a good president because he would be helped by the experts around him. But the president's improvisation saps experts of their key skill: pattern recognition.
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My children are vampires. I don't mean that they are going to dress as vampires for Halloween. I mean that, like vampires, they cannot be captured on film.
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You're basically like glass: People see the candidates through you.
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I believe that Jesus Christ existed and that He died for my sins. And I believe that what He said in the Gospels is a model for the way I should try to lead my life and that I will always fall short of that and, therefore, need Him to redeem me.
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One of the great things about children is that they have no other concern than to be simply interested in things. It is considered by some the height of mindfulness to approach the world afresh like a child.
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The 2008 battle in Iowa for the Democratic caucus was perhaps the most titanic single nominating contest in the history of modern politics.