The one thing I'm quite critical of Hillary Clinton for, and it obviously hurt her, is that at some level, the Clintons had to know that she was going to run for president. Why did they feel it necessary to make tens of millions of dollars with speaking engagements? They must have known that it would look grotesque. The word for it is "buckraking." It's beyond me. I don't understand it.
David RemnickI think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate.
David RemnickEverybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time.
David RemnickWe 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.
David RemnickI use social media every day. I don't have a Twitter account, but not because I'm a dinosaur about it. I have enough of a platform here. People in my position who do it tend to use it in a promotional way or in a hamstrung way. I look at Twitter all the time as a news tool or for cultural conversation. I've used it in my reporting. It's very useful.
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