David Brock Quotes

#1. If some modern-day David Brock wanted to defect from the conservative movement and write a tell-all focused solely on the financial chicanery of the entire right-wing nonprofit/think tank/publishing sphere, I would read the absolute heck out of it.

Alex Pareene

#2. Now that he has disavowed as outright lies many of the stories he told himself, it's hard to know what to make of those who still insist that David Brock had it right the first time.

Jane Mayer

#3. I'm kind of a builder of institutions. I think I've got some ability to look at what's out here, look at a playing field, and identify gaps and niches.

David Brock

#4. Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

David Brock

#5. Sometimes I have chosen to see films just by their posters.

Jean Paul Gaultier

#6. I want to be recognized as the best-no doubt about it. When they say all-pro middle linebacker, I want them to mean Butkus!

Dick Butkus

#7. I'm a former, living, breathing, right-wing conspirator.

David Brock

#8. You can't dance if you got too much muck in your head.

Yoko Ono

#9. It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.

David Brock

#10. Sweet cherry wine, so very fine, take it on down, pass it all around.

Tommy James

#11. During the '90s the flow of misinformation was established.

David Brock

#12. Criticizing Fox News has nothing to do with criticizing the press. Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public.

David Brock

#13. It was really shocking to me that when I was dating a dude I could get married and my taxes were 8 grand less, blah blah blah.

Sia Furler

#14. What I want to be is an actor, not a star.

Edward Albert

#15. When I wrote the Anita Hill book I believed everything I wrote was accurate.

David Brock

#16. Editors of conservative magazines aren't out trying to raise money. The money is there; the cash reserves are in the bank.

David Brock

#17. I was a bad journalist.

David Brock

#18. The right can distort anything it wants.

David Brock

#19. I didn't wake up one day and say, you know, 'Supply-side economics doesn't make sense.'

David Brock

#20. I'm an incredibly hard worker, I'm incredibly tenacious, and I'm incredibly detail-oriented.

David Brock

#21. They'll totally hire me if I say I got fired from my job on the Hill because of a sex scandal.

Jessica Cutler

#22. Walk in truth. Leave footprints of honesty.

A.D. Posey

#23. Being right doesn't mean you win. You win by establishing credibility, a relationship, and trust.

David Brock

#24. The subversive idea at the centre of Ericsson's work is that excellence is not reserved for the lucky few but can be achieved by almost all of us.

Matthew Syed

#25. The truth is that the more responsible the media outlet, the more responsive they are to constructive criticism.

David Brock

#26. Eventually the story would spill over into the regular media.

David Brock

#27. I've been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media.

David Brock

#28. There's every financial incentive in the world to stay in the conservative movement forever.

David Brock

#29. You get to a point where the factual adjudication doesn't matter because there are all these other outlets that are far less responsible, all talking about the ad, some of which have a political reason for promoting it.

David Brock

#30. Screamin' 'Carpe Diem!' until I'm a Dead Poet.

Jay-Z