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Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.
- John Dickerson
#Being
#Human
#Life
#My Life
#Wonderful
Politicians have done some grim things in pursuit of the office. President Franklin Roosevelt was a philanderer; nevertheless, he pushed aides to use his opponent Wendell Wilkie's affairs to hurt him. He even tutored aides on how to spread rumors without getting caught.
- John Dickerson
#Done
#He
#Hurt
#Opponent
#Politicians
The goal of the moderator is to illuminate the views of the candidates on the issues that matter the most to voters, and you don't need to be on the side of the party to do that.
- John Dickerson
#Illuminate
#Issues
#Matter
#Need
#Side
One of the great things about children is that they have no other concern than to be simply interested in things. It is considered by some the height of mindfulness to approach the world afresh like a child.
- John Dickerson
#Children
#Great Things
#Great
#World
Mr. Obama said that he personally told Mr. Putin to knock it off and vows to retaliate. But the Obama presidency is coming to an end, and his successor still won't accept that Russia is guilty of tampering with U.S. elections.
- John Dickerson
#Accept
#Coming
#End
#Guilty
#Russia
One of the worries about a presidency is that everybody tells you yes. Nobody helps you figure out where your blind spots are.
- John Dickerson
#About
#Blind
#Nobody
#Yes
#Your
Mother's Day is a welcome event in partisan times. Nearly everyone agrees that we should show mothers gratitude.
- John Dickerson
#Day
#Gratitude
#Mother
#Show
#Welcome
It's hard to say what the Founding Fathers would think of the modern presidency.
- John Dickerson
#Hard
#Modern
#Say
#Think
#Would
Mom would talk about Eric Sevareid and Murrow and Howard K. Smith the way other parents talk about sports figures.
- John Dickerson
#Mom
#Parents
#Sports
#Talk
#Way
When I interviewed John McCain in 2000 about whether he had taken medication for his anger, I remember thinking, 'Let's see how this is going to work.'
- John Dickerson
#Anger
#Remember
#See
#Thinking
#Work
In 2008, Senator John McCain forbid his staff from using an ad that referred to his opponent Barack Obama's inflammatory former pastor Jeremiah Wright or from raising that issue in any other way. He believed it was a sneaky way to use Obama's race against him.
- John Dickerson
#Against
#Opponent
#Pastor
#Race
#Way
When the campaign ends, and you are home, the alarm clock is the same, but you don't know where to start after it goes off: expense reports, new stories, the crusted paint cans that have to go to the hazardous-waste disposal site, the wiper blade on the Honda that has gone droopy.
- John Dickerson
#Campaign
#Clock
#Home
#New
#Start
Campaigns maybe encourage us to pay attention to attributes that maybe aren't that important in the presidency.
- John Dickerson
#Attention
#Important
#Maybe
#Pay
#Us
If we practice hard enough, we can become thoroughly interested in even the simplest things of daily life, the way a child would. The smallest things would become so meaningful, they might even be worth a few words or a photograph, whatever method you use to capture them.
- John Dickerson
#Daily
#Life
#Practice
#Way
#Words
My instincts for asking questions is to press but not to be a jerk about it.
- John Dickerson
#About
#Asking Questions
#Jerk
#Questions
In addition to surviving the Forrestal, McCain has survived three other plane disasters, including being shot down over enemy territory.
- John Dickerson
#Being
#Down
#Enemy
#Shot
#Three
Comey worried that the pressure from Trump to end the Flynn investigation or remove the 'cloud' of the larger investigation would 'infect' the investigation if he let others working on the case know about it. You don't need to believe the particulars of each exchange to see that this mode of management was not productive to a larger purpose.
- John Dickerson
#Believe
#Management
#Pressure
#Purpose
George W. Bush said the reason the Oval Office is round is there are no corners you can hide in.
- John Dickerson
#Hide
#Office
#Reason
#Round
#Said
Chess masters don't evaluate all the possible moves. They know how to discard 98 percent of the ones they could make and then focus on the best choice of the remaining lot. That's the way expertise works in other fields, too: Wise practitioners recognize familiar patterns and put their creativity, improvisation, and skill toward the marginal cases.
- John Dickerson
#Best
#Choice
#Focus
#Skill
#Wise
A president cannot grow a long-term lack of trust in someone with whom they had full confidence the day before.
- John Dickerson
#Confidence
#Day
#Grow
#Someone
#Trust
A picture excites the love of parenting that comes through meditation on a child.
- John Dickerson
#Love
#Meditation
#Parenting
#Picture
The swashbuckling independence of my childhood was not all good, and as a father, I'm puzzling out how to be part of my children's lives rather than shoehorning them into mine. But there's a risk that I'll overcompensate, of course.
- John Dickerson
#Childhood
#Children
#Good
#Independence
CBS's Major Garrett writes in 'National Journal' about a new version of the 'stray voltage' theory of communication in which the president purposefully overstates his case knowing that it will create controversy.
- John Dickerson
#Communication
#Create
#New
#Theory
#Will
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