John Dickerson Quotes

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The culture of undermining sends signals of disrespect.

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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It’s hard to say what the Founding Fathers would think of the modern presidency.
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If we practice hard enough, we can become thoroughly interested in even the simplest things of daily life, the way a child would. The smallest things would become so meaningful, they might even be worth a few words or a photograph, whatever method you use to capture them.
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One of the things that voters have said about Donald Trump, since he has no government experience, is that he will be able to surround himself with good advisers.
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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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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 picture excites the love of parenting that comes through meditation on a child.
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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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During the 2008 campaign, Hillary Clinton ran a blunt television ad asking whether Barack Obama could handle a foreign policy crisis.
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Mitt Romney won the GOP nomination on a platform of ‘self-deportation’ for illegal immigrants – and the Obama team never let Hispanics forget it. The Obama campaign also branded Republicans with Romney’s ill-chosen words about 47 percent of Americans as the party of uncaring millionaires.
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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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If people feel like the boss doesn’t respect them, they don’t stretch for the boss.
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Expectations shouldn’t be lowered, even if Donald Trump was just telling stories to impress the crowd around him and never grabbed as many women as he suggested. Lower the bar for what you can talk about, and you lower the bar for what is acceptable behavior.
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My instincts for asking questions is to press but not to be a jerk about it.
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When I interviewed John McCain in 2000 about whether he had taken medication for his anger, I remember thinking, ‘Let’s see how this is going to work.’
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Some of us do talk about women like objects, which dehumanizes them.
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Every president makes the Oval Office theirs.
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Using the termlocker room talk’ blurs the line between what is criminal and what is simply oafish. That’s not a line anyone should want blurred.
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There is no human-resources training for how to respond when you work for an unpredictable president. It’s perhaps fitting that when you visit the website of the White House Office of Administration it says, ‘Check back soon for more information.’
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Things were so unpredictable in Comey’s first meeting with President-elect Trump, the former FBI director immediately took notes in his car after the interaction.
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For Hillary Clinton, Iowa was a tough state for her in 2008, and she’s put a lot of effort into fixing those mistakes.
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Campaigns maybe encourage us to pay attention to attributes that maybe aren’t that important in the presidency.
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After President Obama took office, his campaign book ‘The Audacity of Hope‘ receded into his past fast. Its sweet, naive, bipartisan ‘let’s reason togetherpassages fell away, too.
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There is a basic idea to this fighting spirit: that there are standards worth devoting yourself to that are more important than your self-interest.
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Today, campaigning isn’t an ‘interruption‘ but a permanent condition. Indeed, if you are a successful campaigner, it’s expected you’ll be a successful president.
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The locker rooms that Donald Trump is in are not at the cut-rate gym with the broken treadmills – they are at his swish golf clubs. They are places of stature.
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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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In their day, no man worthy of the presidency would ever stoop to campaigning for it. George Washington was asked to serve. Decades later, his successors were also expected to sit by the phone.
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In 1840, William Henry Harrison is the first one to really campaign as a candidate, and the campaigns were totally frivolous. I mean, people were drinking hard cider all day. They were big parades; no one was debating the issues.
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In the end, Obama won, stealing the change message from John Edwards and beating back Hillary Clinton’s focus on experience. And the race turned on a remarkable speech Obama gave on the night of Nov. 10, 2007, in Des Moines.
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When the campaign ends, and you are home, the alarm clock is the same, but you don’t know where to start after it goes off: expense reports, new stories, the crusted paint cans that have to go to the hazardous-waste disposal site, the wiper blade on the Honda that has gone droopy.
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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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President-elect Trump says he’s not even sure the Russians did the hacking.
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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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Claims of a decisiveturning point‘ in any election are often overblown – more often, such a moment merely crystallizes a change that’s been days or weeks in the making. But you can make a real case that Obama’s JeffersonJackson Day speech is a pivot point in America history.
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George W. Bush said the reason the Oval Office is round is there are no corners you can hide in.
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If Michael Flynn lost his job because of a gradual erosion of trust, shouldn’t the easy and frequent production of official statements that are so many connecting flights from the truth also be concerning?
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CBS’s Major Garrett writes in ‘National Journal’ about a new version of the ‘stray voltage’ theory of communication in which the president purposefully overstates his case knowing that it will create controversy.
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The most important connection I can see between my faith and my work is that in the progress of my day, I try to be restrained and mindful of every person‘s humanity and of the overwhelming challenge of pride.
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There are a lot of plans out there for fixing health care.
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An old theory holds that air conditioning ruined Congress. Members no longer had to flee the Washington heat to spend the summer back home. The long vacation forced them to bond with their constituents.
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Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.
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The challenge with Donald Trump is that he’ll deny things he said the day before or even in the same interview. And then sometimes when you try and talk about a fact that he misstated or something that he said out loud that he now disagrees with himself on, it’s very frustrating.
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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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Officials in every White House crowbar the facts to make their cases.
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Politicians have done some grim things in pursuit of the office. President Franklin Roosevelt was a philanderer; nevertheless, he pushed aides to use his opponent Wendell Wilkie’s affairs to hurt him. He even tutored aides on how to spread rumors without getting caught.
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A campaign gives you focus. You wake up to a different hotel alarm clock every day, but you know your mission.
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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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When former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote his recent book, ‘Duty‘, it was full of tough assessments and candor.
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