When you get people standing up saying, 'I'm going to just tell the truth; what do we have to fear?,' it encourages others, and it creates a counterresponse.
Ron SuskindRapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering.
Ron SuskindThe President [Barack Obama], I think if you look at it from his shoes, you know, was facing a very difficult situation where he had to own Washington, tame New York, save a collapsing economy, with a collapsed financial system. He moved, I think, to a team that he felt was tried and true, in terms of dealing with financial crisis. That was his decision.
Ron SuskindThese were lobbyistsโmany of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.
Ron Suskind