Adam Clymer Quotes

#1. Ted Kennedy is the only person alive who might know more than we do about Chappaquiddick, and he may not. - Author: Adam Clymer

#2. There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back. - Author: Adam Clymer

#3. When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons. - Author: Adam Clymer

#4. Democratic politicians have disliked things I've written, Republican politicians ... if they all love you, you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck. - Author: Adam Clymer

#5. I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing. - Author: Adam Clymer

#6. Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it. - Author: Adam Clymer

#7. Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language. - Author: Adam Clymer

#8. Ted Kennedy's achievements as a senator have towered over his time, changing the lives of far more Americans than remember the name Mary Jo Kopechne. - Author: Adam Clymer