Quotes by Josh Marshall

Josh Marshall

Authoritarianism and secrecy breed incompetence; the two feed on each other. It’s a vicious cycle. Governments with authoritarian tendencies point to what is in fact their own incompetence as the rationale for giving them yet more power.

Giving

Government

Two

For David Halberstam journalism was a calling, not a job. You couldn’t fire him and he wouldn’t quit.

Journalism

Quitting

I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.

Blogging

Mediums

Thinking

I’m not a gun owner and, as I think as is the case for the more than half the people in the country who also aren’t gun owners, that means that for me guns are alien. In the current rhetorical climate people seem not to want to say: I think guns are kind of scary and don’t want to be around them.

Country

Gun

Mean

If you look at the people who are advising Rudy Giuliani it turns out that they seem to be all the people who were too insane or too extremist to even get on the George W. Bush team.

Insane

People

Team

Officials and journalists live in parallel but separate realities; they see and talk to each other, may have a meal and gossip together, but their worlds never touch, because officials use words that don’t mean what they say, while for those reporters in Vietnam – Halberstam, Peter Arnett, Morley Safer, and others – words were vessels of reality.

Gossip

Mean

Reality

One of the failings of ideologues is their inability to see that everyone else isn’t necessarily an ideologue like them.

Failing

Inability

Libertarian

Success can be built on a strong relationship between a lobbyist and a single, powerful lawmaker.

Lobbyists

Powerful

Strong

That D.C. grand jury investigation of Abramoff can’t go on forever. Eventually the lawyers at the Public Integrity Section will go to their bosses with some decisions about just who they want to indict. That’s when Al Gonzales will have to show his cards.

Boss

Decision

Integrity

The death of honest and courageous a reporter leaves America a little more vulnerable.

Courageous

Honest

Vulnerable

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Blogging

Boss

Country

Courageous

Decision

Enemy

Failing

Fool

Giving

Gossip

Government

Gun

Honest

Hours

Inability

Insane

Integrity

Journalism

Justice

Kings

Libertarian

Lobbyists

Mean

Mediums

New York

Numbers

Office

Opinion

Party

People

Philosophy

Political

Powerful

President

Quitting

Real

Reality

Republican

Running

Secretary

Strong

Team

Thinking

Ties

Trying

Two

Vote

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Quotes by Josh Marshall

Josh Marshall

Authoritarianism and secrecy breed incompetence; the two feed on each other. It’s a vicious cycle. Governments with authoritarian tendencies point to what is in fact their own incompetence as the rationale for giving them yet more power.

For David Halberstam journalism was a calling, not a job. You couldn’t fire him and he wouldn’t quit.

I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.

If you look at the people who are advising Rudy Giuliani it turns out that they seem to be all the people who were too insane or too extremist to even get on the George W. Bush team.

One of the failings of ideologues is their inability to see that everyone else isn’t necessarily an ideologue like them.

Success can be built on a strong relationship between a lobbyist and a single, powerful lawmaker.

That D.C. grand jury investigation of Abramoff can’t go on forever. Eventually the lawyers at the Public Integrity Section will go to their bosses with some decisions about just who they want to indict. That’s when Al Gonzales will have to show his cards.

The death of honest and courageous a reporter leaves America a little more vulnerable.

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