76 Quotes by Jeff Greenfield

Gee, I'm not sure I really like this.

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

Television is one of the most fickle businesses that there are, you are in favour one minute and out the next.

I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math.

If Obama's vision of the public sector is socialism, then so too were the visions of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.

Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.

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.

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.

Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot .