Joe Klein Quotes

"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
(Related: 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
(Related: 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
(Related: Policy, Arrogance, Compassion, Foreign policy, Humility)

"Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap."
- Joe Klein
(Related: 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
(Related: Colors, Journalism, Writing)

"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
(Related: Bible, American, Journalism, Literary, Practice, Tradition)

"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
(Related: Age, Journalism)