Quotes by John Dickerson - Page 2

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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Car
Fbi
Former
Interaction
Notes
Trump
Unpredictable
Director
Immediately
Meeting
Took
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What is the appetite for truth in the Trump White House? That's not a question about the untrue things the president says. It's about the level of truth the system expects.
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Appetite
Untrue
White House
Expects
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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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Alive
Busy
Died
Letters
Too Much
Journals
Windows
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Not everybody gets a chance to go fly around the country and spend time in places with people who aren't like them, where, again and again, you realize we're all generally alike.
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Time Chance Where
Alike
Generally
Places
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The goal of the moderator is to illuminate the views of the candidates on the issues that matter the most to voters, and you don't need to be on the side of the party to do that.
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Candidates
Views
Voters
Illuminate
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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 together' passages fell away, too.
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Audacity
Bipartisan
Office
Passages
President
President Obama
Obama
Campaign
Fast
Took
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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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Campaigning
Decades
Expected
Presidency
Worthy
Asked
Washington
Phone
George
Serve
Stoop
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I've talked to several who have been approached for short- or long-term duty in the Trump administration. The evidence of the work environment that mounts with each passing day makes them highly wary.
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Administration
Evidence
Long Term
Passing
Work Environment
Highly
Talked
Wary
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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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Approach
Disrespect
Hours
Motivation
Signals
Teamwork
Undermining
Also
Anticipating
Wrong
Extra
Sends
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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.
John Dickerson /
Vacation
Air
Air Conditioning
Conditioning
Congress
Constituents
Heat
Members
Ruined
Summer
Theory
Bond
Washington
Flee
Forced
Holds
Spend
Longer
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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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Connecting
Erosion
Statements
Concerning
Michael
Flights
Frequent
Gradual
Official
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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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Approach
Concern
Great Things
Height
Mindfulness
Considered
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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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Overwhelming
Pride
Mindful
Restrained
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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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Communication
Controversy
Journal
President
Theory
Version
Case
Cbs
Major
Stray
Writes
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I couldn't wait to get out, and at 14, I moved into a three-room Georgetown town house with Dad. I never went back. When they eventually sold the house, in 1984, Mom had a goodbye party for 'Merrywood.' I refused to go.
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Goodbye
Refused
Sold
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There's the human side of people who are in public life that connects people. Whether it's favorable or unfavorable, it gives them some connection with the person who's onstage, and I think those connections are edifying.
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Public Life
Life People Person
Side
Connection
Favorable
Gives
Onstage
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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.
John Dickerson /
Clinton
Des Moines
Remarkable
Speech
Stealing
Beating
Hillary
In The End
John Edwards
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Mr. Obama said that he personally told Mr. Putin to knock it off and vows to retaliate. But the Obama presidency is coming to an end, and his successor still won't accept that Russia is guilty of tampering with U.S. elections.
John Dickerson /
Guilty
Presidency
Putin
Russia
Mr
Elections
Retaliate
Successor
Vows
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President-elect Donald Trump says he's looking for a simple plan for defeating ISIS within his first 30 days of taking office. But even as ISIS has suffered setbacks in Iraq and Syria, its violent ideology continues to spread.
John Dickerson /
Ideology
Iraq
Office
Spread
Syria
Trump
Defeating
Suffered
Donald
Donald Trump
Plan
Setbacks
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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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Cider
Drinking
Frivolous
Mean People
Parades
Totally
All Day
Campaign
Candidate
Debating
First One
William
Henry
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The swashbuckling independence of my childhood was not all good, and as a father, I'm puzzling out how to be part of my children's lives rather than shoehorning them into mine. But there's a risk that I'll overcompensate, of course.
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Independence
Puzzling
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I believe that Jesus Christ existed and that He died for my sins. And I believe that what He said in the Gospels is a model for the way I should try to lead my life and that I will always fall short of that and, therefore, need Him to redeem me.
John Dickerson /
Jesus Christ
Life Believe Me
Life Believe Always
Existed
Gospels
Redeem
Sins
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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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Administration
Fitting
Unpredictable
Website
White House
Check
Respond
Visit
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If you have children and want to give your future self a present, record their laughter as toddlers. When they're older and away from you, you might find that clip in the middle of the day, and it will transport you as surely as if you had a time machine.
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Clip
Laughter
Middle
Transport
Future Time Day
Older
Record
Present
Surely
Toddlers
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A number of Donald Trump's supporters told me during the campaign they had faith that he would be a good president because he would be helped by the experts around him. But the president's improvisation saps experts of their key skill: pattern recognition.
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Experts
Improvisation
Recognition
Faith Good Me
Campaign
Donald
Pattern
Skill
Supporters
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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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Acceptable
Behavior
Impress
Stories
Trump
Talk
Bar
Crowd
Donald
Donald Trump
Grabbed
Lower
Suggested
Telling
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The walls of our upstairs hallway testify that we once had photogenic children. There are rows of framed pictures that show them playing baseball, basketball, holding a toad, and smiling in the sunlight at their eager parents. Everything is orderly and bright.
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Framed
Orderly
Sunlight
Upstairs
Bright
Eager
Hallway
Holding
Rows
Smiling
Testify
Toad
Walls
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In 2008, Senator John McCain forbid his staff from using an ad that referred to his opponent Barack Obama's inflammatory former pastor Jeremiah Wright or from raising that issue in any other way. He believed it was a sneaky way to use Obama's race against him.
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Barack
Former
Mccain
Pastor
Race
Sneaky
Staff
Ad
Obama
Any Other Way
Believed
Senator
Forbid
Issue
John
Opponent
Raising
Referred
Using
Wright
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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.
John Dickerson /
Businessman
Female
Mother
Nancy
Nbc
News
Officials
Stars
Successful
Television
Television News
Attracted
Cabinet
Cbs
Star
Reporter
Movie Stars
Parties
Presidents
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To be the windowpane - this is basically a bastardization of what Orwell said about good writing - so you can get the conversation going and frame it the right way and make sure people aren't lost. And then you let the candidates illuminate the issues themselves.
John Dickerson /
Candidates
Good Writing
Right Way
Frame
Illuminate
Orwell
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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.
John Dickerson /
Caught
Done
Franklin
Grim
Hurt
Nevertheless
Office
President
Pursuit
Spread
Things
Affairs
Aide
He
Without
How
Politicians
Getting
Even
Franklin Roosevelt
Him
His
Opponent
Some
Roosevelt
Rumors
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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.
John Dickerson /
Capture
Daily Life
Enough
Hard
Meaningful
Method
Might
Photograph
Practice
Simplest
Smallest
Words
Child
Interested
Daily
Even
Whatever
Few
Simplest Things
Thoroughly
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Claims of a decisive 'turning 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 Jefferson-Jackson Day speech is a pivot point in America history.
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Claims
Election
Turning
Decisive
Merely
Turning Point
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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.
John Dickerson /
Deny
Frustrating
Loud
Trump
Challenge
Donald
Donald Trump
Interview
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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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Clock
Honda
Paint
Reports
Site
Stories
Alarm
Blade
Campaign
Cans
Disposal
Expense
Goes
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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.
John Dickerson /
Branded
Gop
Illegal
Illegal Immigrants
Immigrants
Obama Campaign
Romney
Campaign
Republicans
Hispanics
Millionaires
Mitt
Mitt Romney
Nomination
Platform
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Inaugural speeches are supposed to be huge and stirring. Presidents haul our heroes onstage, from George Washington to Martin Luther King Jr. George W. Bush brought the Liberty Bell. They use history to make greatness and achievements seem like something you can just take down from the shelf.
John Dickerson /
Greatness
Haul
Liberty
Luther
Stirring
Achievements
Heroes
Bell
Brought
Bush
Washington
George
George W
George W. Bush
Martin
Martin Luther King Jr
Martin Luther King
Onstage
Presidents
Shelf
Speeches
Supposed
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People out there with pre-existing conditions, they are worried. Are they going to have the guarantee of coverage if they have a pre-existing condition or if they live in a state where the governor decides that's not a part of the health care, or that the prices are going to go up? That's the worry.
John Dickerson /
Health
Care
Coverage
Health Care
Worried
Condition
Health Care People
Governor
Guarantee
Prices
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The house was big enough for my brother and me to have firecracker wars at one end and leave Mom and Dad undisturbed at the other. When firecrackers weren't available, we attacked each other with pennies and marbles and clumps of Crisco, which made brilliant greasy asterisks when you missed and hit the wall.
John Dickerson /
Dad
Mom
Available
Brilliant
Brother
House
Mom And Dad
Pennies
Wall
Mom Enough Me
Dad Enough Me
Attacked
Hit
Big Enough
Wars
Leave
Dad Mom Me
Marbles
Missed
Undisturbed
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When the kids were young, they just wanted to be around us. We were units of comfort and support. As they get older, we work the turnstile, helping the exasperated customer pass whatever temporary obstacle is keeping them from their next exciting thing. Now we're the ones who just like having them in the room.
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Comfort
Helping
Temporary
Units
Customer
Obstacle
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In the modern presidency, the Chief Executive is expected to respond to anxious national moments with words that stabilize the country. President Trump chose a different route. He did not give a stirring speech of unity or create a national gathering point around common ideals. He spent his passion on other things.
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Anxious
Common
Expected
Gathering
Ideals
Modern
Passion
Presidency
Speech
Stirring
Trump
Unity
Chief
Chief Executive
Chose
Respond
Executive
National
President Trump
Route
Spent
Stabilize
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Comey worried that the pressure from Trump to end the Flynn investigation or remove the 'cloud' of the larger investigation would 'infect' the investigation if he let others working on the case know about it. You don't need to believe the particulars of each exchange to see that this mode of management was not productive to a larger purpose.
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Investigation
Management
Remove
Worried
Cloud
Exchange
Infect
Mode
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Chess masters don't evaluate all the possible moves. They know how to discard 98 percent of the ones they could make and then focus on the best choice of the remaining lot. That's the way expertise works in other fields, too: Wise practitioners recognize familiar patterns and put their creativity, improvisation, and skill toward the marginal cases.
John Dickerson /
Wise
Best
Cases
Chess
Creativity
Evaluate
Expertise
Familiar
Fields
Focus
Improvisation
Masters
Patterns
Lot
Then
Works
Choice
Possible
Too
Could
Discard
Put
Marginal
Moves
Other
Recognize
Remaining
Skill
Toward
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