Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot . Jeff Greenfield Read Quote
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. Jeff Greenfield Read Quote
In every debate, whatever the format, whatever the questions, there is one and only one way to identify the winner: Who commands the room? Who drives the narrative? Who is in charge? Jeff Greenfield Read Quote
If the court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, is that a ‘liberal’ result enabling gay couples married in states where gay marriage is legal to enjoy the same economic advantages that federal laws now grant to straight couples? Or is it a ‘conservative’ ruling, limiting the federal government’s ability to override state power? Jeff Greenfield Read Quote
I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math. Jeff Greenfield Read Quote
More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy. Jeff Greenfield Read Quote
In the post-Watergate atmosphere of 1975 and 1976, the just-plain-folks personalities of both Ford and Carter seemed the perfect antidote to Nixon’s arrogant, isolated presidency. But as alert history-minded readers know, Ford and Carter were both rebuffed by voters in their efforts to hold on to the presidency. Jeff Greenfield Read Quote
George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower all rode their wartime heroics into the White House. Jeff Greenfield Read Quote
When Bill Clinton chose Al Gore in 1992 – from the same generational, ideological, and geographical background as his – it underscored his campaign’s central argument that this was a clash between the past and the future, that ‘Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow’ was indeed the campaign’s anthem. Jeff Greenfield Read Quote
In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including ‘debate prep.’ Jeff Greenfield Read Quote
