Ron Suskind Quotes (9 Quotes)

Haven't we already given money to rich people... Shouldn't we be giving money to the middle

From the start, we were building the case against Hussein and looking at how we could take him out and change Iraq into a new country. And, if we did that, it would solve everything. It was about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it -- the president saying, 'Fine. Go find me a way to do this.'

To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power - it's difficult. This administration has evolved new techniques to handle people like me. Their strategy, in a word, is simple: ignore them.

We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating new realities ... we're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.

If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you did today, nobody from the White House will ever talk to you again,'

He got the documents from lawyers at the Treasury Department when he made a request after he left.

Other administrations ceded to fact, and saw the benefit - the value - to meaningful public dialogue based on fact. They understood that was one of their obligations, to engage with people who were there to ask pointed and pertinent questions and demand answers to them. They understood that's how it worked and that that was the precedent. This administration has said, 'What does that have to do with me'

The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.

There are memos, ... One of them marked 'secret' says 'Plan for Post-Saddam Iraq.'