The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.
Ron SuskindWars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches.
Ron SuskindThese were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.
Ron SuskindTwo sons, they'll both be presidents after they win their Nobel Prizes. And the daughters, they'll be prima ballerinas before they become the president of Princeton and start their Internet company. And I just started to think about What's the conventional load of those expectations you carry around? You have to pull them out one by one and smash them in the corner. You realize the pile is quite high. But in a way, it becomes oddly liberating to do that.
Ron Suskind