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Jack Germond

Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read – other than the Bible, which they all say they read – and the kind of people with whom they spend their time.

– Jack Germond

Jack Germond

Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.

– Jack Germond

Jack Germond

Attack politics costs us dearly in terms of insight into the candidates. In a presidential campaign, the focus is so tight that the politicians are afraid to say anything that hasn’t been scripted.

– Jack Germond

Jack Germond

American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome.

– Jack Germond

Jack Germond

Pictures can be devastating. Who allowed John Kerry to get himself photographed windsurfing in a flowered swimsuit? Anyone in the real world in that operation?

– Jack Germond

Jack Germond

Spend hundreds of millions; talk endlessly about issues; present 12-point plans for education, the economy, and the environment. But in the end, the election of our next president can turn on a gaffe.

– Jack Germond

Jack Germond

For those of us who spent our careers competing with David Broder, the hardest thing to abide was the inevitable comparison. If someone said Jack Germond – or Jules Witcover or Walter Mears or whoever – ‘is a pretty good political reporter,’ the default response would be, ‘but he’s no David Broder.’

– Jack Germond

Jack Germond

Most of the good people of my generation… had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.

– Jack Germond

Jack Germond

I really found this campaign odious. I couldn’t get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn’t know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.

– Jack Germond

Jack Germond

You could write your fingers off for 25 years… and never get the kind of hearing you could get from shooting off your mouth on television for a half hour every week.

– Jack Germond

Jack Germond

Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter – which is true – except for the pay!

– Jack Germond

Jack Germond

Everyone I know thinks television is the most important part of my life. I did it for the money! I was able to send my daughter to college.

– Jack Germond

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