Jeff Greenfield Quotes (15 Quotes)

He'd call you and say he had a problem with your script 45 minutes before you were going on the air, ... Part of it was to remind you who the alpha dog was, but he also saw it as a mentoring thing. If you're going to get your piece on ABC News, you had better know your story backward and forward. That's why he was famous for asking obscure questions.

These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.

If you're a brand aligning yourself with the daytime show, the nighttime show could affect you adversely. The hard-edged personality of Martha is going to sell different types of products than the nice Martha who arranges flowers.

He was the voice, the person of ABC News. It's always hard to replace, but when it's unexpected, it's devastating.

If there's any sign of life in that campaign, I haven't been able to detect it,

I really have never heard an acceptance speech where 20 years of a guy's life in the U. S. Senate is kissed off in three sentences.

The GOP doesn't need to convince the right to vote for Bush, and, with the exception of some grousing that led to Santorum and Brownback to be added to the speaker list, they won't be showing the right-wing side of the party,

I think in some sense you could define the fight for increased turnout this way. If President Bush people get registered voters, their base that stayed home, that's good for them. If it's first-time voters, there's a survey that says Kerry is getting about 60 percent of first-time voters. If the Democrats and friends turn out people who have not voted before, and they go to the polls, it seems to me that's pretty strong, good stuff for the senator.

His speech amounts to a painful poke in the eye for Democrats, according to Greenfield. Oh, it's a real poke, ... It's a way of embodying the idea that Republicans have done better than the Democrats, because even prominent members of their own party are supporting the other side.

I got into television because I hated it so. I thought, there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen.

Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans.

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

Victory has 1,000 fathers defeat has 1,000 kibitzers.

It's just been a whirlwind of excitement here. I hope to have a couple of those T-shirts in my hands by Saturday.

More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.