Jonathan Alter Quotes

#1. The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't.

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#2. If it's easy for the government to learn about us, it should be easier for us to learn about the government, what they're doing.

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#3. In the press grandstand where I watched Discovery rise against the cloudless sky, the media hit the abort button on cynicism. The Earth shook to the sounds of man, three miles away. The candle lit ... only someone stripped of awe can leave a launch untouched.

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#4. With his ABC News experience, perhaps Pierre Salinger's next job could be cohosting-with Oliver Stone-a 24-hour Conspiracy Network.

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#5. Unless the digital divide is narrowed soon, the United States may be headed to the class warfare of a century ago, the last time the economy changed so fundamentally. It won't be pleasant.

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#6. Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate.

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#7. If Franz Kafka were alive today he'd be writing about customer service.

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#8. I think it's a terrible system, but money in politics is like water running downhill
it finds its way.

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#9. Every patient reacts a little differently, both biologically and psychologically. The only constant in cancer is inconstancy; the only certainty is a future of uncertainty, a truism for all of modern life but one made vivid by life-threatening illness.

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#10. Obama was willing to compromise and Republicans were not. That's not a biased statement. One of my problems with the limitations of journalism is that straightforward descriptions of reality are seen as being biased.

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#11. The price of loyalty is incompetence.

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#12. The basic problem is with the business model of journalism. That business model is premised on the idea that talk is cheap and reporting is expensive.

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#13. The only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ideas, making the bills merely bad, not disastrous.

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#14. It sometimes takes a while for executives to figure out that the reporters they think of as little bugs to be squashed or spun can be more powerful than they are.

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#15. The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics

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