David Remnick quotes

Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving. (David Remnick)

Not all political prisoners are innocents.

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There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.

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I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.

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The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.

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The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to jolt the complacent.

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I have to always remember, writing is really hard.

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Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.

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I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate.

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I actually have great hopes for the future.

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Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords. (David Remnick)

Vladimir Putin wants to become the de facto head of an illiberal, xenophobic, hypernationalist trend in world politics.

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We can hope that the responsibilities and realities will weigh on Donald Trump and he will not be the president we fear, but rather something more stable.

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Vladimir Putin wants practical things, like the end of economic sanctions, but he also wants far greater sway in Europe and in the overall ideological trends of the world.

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I would like to see Russia not invade Ukraine or put pressure on and threaten Baltic states. But we live in the real and existing world.

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The Cold War was wildly expensive and consumed the entire globe.

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98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.

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I'm not the slowest writer that you know.

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Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.

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We should put pressure on power and write the truth and write relentlessly and fearlessly. That's the job.

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Being an editor it's a complicated job, but the last impression I'd want anybody to have is that it's onerous. It's a joy - a complicated joy, but a joy. (David Remnick)

I got in journalism for any number of reasons, not least because it's so much fun. Journalism should be in the business of putting pressure on power, finding out the truth, of shining a light on injustice, of, when appropriate, being amusing and entertaining - it's a complicated and varied beast, journalism.

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Donald Trump's temperament and character is precisely what you would hate to see in your children, much less your president.

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The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.

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I would also like to see Russia not interfere in our elections.

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Occupation: American Journalist
Born: October 29, 1958
Quotes count: 47

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