Top 31 Germond Quotes
#1. For those of us who spent our careers competing with David Broder, the hardest thing to abide was the inevitable comparison. If someone said Jack Germond - or Jules Witcover or Walter Mears or whoever - 'is a pretty good political reporter,' the default response would be, 'but he's no David Broder.'
Jack Germond
#2. My dream wasn't to be a princess in a castle. I wanted to be Persephone, claimed by the god of the underworld. Except that was the thing about getting captured; it wasn't up to me. I
Skye Warren
#3. Baseball is the best announcer game, the game that I first enjoyed playing, and the game I had a passion for.
Dick Enberg
#4. Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
Jack Germond
#5. Attention is the most concrete expression of love. What we pay attention to thrives. What we do not pay attention to withers and dies. What will you pay attention to today?
Karen Maezen Miller
#6. I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
Jack Germond
#7. By trusting Christ's redemptive work for us, we can enter into what we long for: the happiness found only in God.
Randy Alcorn
#9. I have always argued that newspapers should not have any civic purpose beyond telling readers what is happening ... A reporter who doesn't quickly tell readers what they most want to know - the score - won't last long. Better he should teach political science.
Jack Germond
#10. Attack politics costs us dearly in terms of insight into the candidates. In a presidential campaign, the focus is so tight that the politicians are afraid to say anything that hasn't been scripted.
Jack Germond
#11. There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.
Ramana Maharshi
#12. You could write your fingers off for 25 years ... and never get the kind of hearing you could get from shooting off your mouth on television for a half hour every week.
Jack Germond
#13. Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.
Jack Germond
#14. Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they read - and the kind of people with whom they spend their time.
Jack Germond
#15. I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.
Jack Germond
#16. American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome.
Jack Germond
#17. Everyone I know thinks television is the most important part of my life. I did it for the money! I was able to send my daughter to college.
Jack Germond
#18. My liberal friends are such a bunch soft-headed, politically correct jerks ...
Jack Germond
#19. Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
Jack Germond
#20. The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.
Jack Germond
#21. I have been an atheist my entire adult life. I do not proselytize, however. Nor do I question the faith of others. I just don't want to be obliged to accept someone else's faith as a factor in my government.
Jack Germond
#22. Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
Jack Germond
#23. Pictures can be devastating. Who allowed John Kerry to get himself photographed windsurfing in a flowered swimsuit? Anyone in the real world in that operation?
Jack Germond
#24. Our ideals resemble the stars, which illumintate the night. No one will ever be able to touch them. But the men who, like the sailors on the ocean, take them for guides, will undoubtedly reach their goal.
Carl Schurz
#25. Mo Udall didn't want the presidency bad enough. He was too sane. He was a marvelous guy, but you had the feeling there was another Udall outside his body watching the candidate Udall who was too extravagant, telling him to cut it out.
Jack Germond
#26. Most of the good people of my generation ... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
Jack Germond
#27. The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced with advanced preparation for its commencement.
Joe Slovo
#28. Recommended additon to the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights: "A right to not have your data rise up and attack you."
Benjamin Wittes
#29. Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live under its foolish laws, the wise man is never the first to follow, nor the last to keep it.
Blaise Pascal
#30. Spend hundreds of millions; talk endlessly about issues; present 12-point plans for education, the economy, and the environment. But in the end, the election of our next president can turn on a gaffe.
Jack Germond
#31. The country is stronger than the result of any one election. But we shouldn't forget that these are just ordinary people. I wish Americans would look at them level, not down or up - just level. It doesn't take some special dimension to be president.
Jack Germond
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