If you happened to be born on third base, you didn't rub it in the face of the guy who wasn't even born in the stadium. Self-interest was generally checked at the door with your coat and hat.
Ron SuskindThe media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.
Ron SuskindThe informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere.
Ron SuskindIf you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you did today, nobody from the White House will ever talk to you again
Ron SuskindOnce they arrive, affirmative action kids are generally left to sink or swim academically. Brown (University) offers plenty of counseling and tutoring to struggling students, but, as any academic Dean will tell you, it's up to the students to seek it out, something that a drowning minority student will seek to avoid at all costs, fearing it will trumpet a second-class status.
Ron Suskind