81 Quotes by Joe Klein

We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.

Political courage requires clarity.

We`re facing a very different sort of threat now, a more amorphous threat, al Qaeda, terrorism, and so on. And so the military has abandoned the two-war strategy.

I've been described as a grizzled political veteran.

I think that if you make a strong statement of principle, even if the folks disagree with you, people will respect you for it.

For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude.

The two-war strategy was a product of the cold war, when we had to have the ability to fight the Russians on the plains of Europe and fight the Chinese on the Korean peninsula at the same time. That costs an awful lot of money.

Barack Obama's inspirational whoosh to the presidency in 2008 was unusual. Most campaigns are less exhilarating; indeed, they are downright disappointing - until someone wins.

Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.