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Joe Klein
American
Journalist
About the author
You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.
Joe Klein,
American
Journalist
#Comedy
#News
I invented the psychological histories and the relationship between Jack and Susan Stanton. I didn't know anything about the Clintons. I don't know more about the Clintons' marriage than you do.
Joe Klein,
American
Journalist
#Marriage
Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased.
Joe Klein,
American
Journalist
#Life
#American
#Diversity
Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.
Joe Klein,
American
Journalist
#Policy
#Humility
#Foreign policy
#Compassion
#Arrogance
Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.
Joe Klein,
American
Journalist
#Action
#Justice
Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.
Joe Klein,
American
Journalist
#Writing
#Journalism
#Colors
Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible.
Joe Klein,
American
Journalist
#Bible
#Practice
#American
#Literary
#Tradition
#Journalism
I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.
Joe Klein,
American
Journalist
#Age
#Journalism