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Top 25 Jeff Greenfield Quotes (2024 Update)

Jeff Greenfield Quote: “There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well.”

1. “There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well.”

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Jeff Greenfield Quote: “Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.”

2. “Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.”

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Jeff Greenfield Quote: “In politics, Bugs Bunny always beats Daffy Duck. Daffy’s always going berserk, jumping up and down, yelling. Bugs’s got that sly smile, like he always knows what’s up, like nothing can ruffle him.”

3. “In politics, Bugs Bunny always beats Daffy Duck. Daffy’s always going berserk, jumping up and down, yelling. Bugs’s got that sly smile, like he always knows what’s up, like nothing can ruffle him.”

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Jeff Greenfield Quote: “The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn’t worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.”

4. “The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn’t worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.”

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Jeff Greenfield Quote: “I grew up in New York City, where we played highly unorganized sports: stick ball, stoop ball, and the occasional game of baseball with no adult supervision.”

5. “I grew up in New York City, where we played highly unorganized sports: stick ball, stoop ball, and the occasional game of baseball with no adult supervision.”

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Jeff Greenfield Quote: “History doesn’t turn on a dime; it turns on a plugged nickel.”

6. “History doesn’t turn on a dime; it turns on a plugged nickel.”

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Jeff Greenfield Quote: “Never attribute to malevolence that which can best be explained by incompetence.“ – Greenfield’s First Law of Political Analysis.”

7. “Never attribute to malevolence that which can best be explained by incompetence.“ – Greenfield’s First Law of Political Analysis.”

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Jeff Greenfield Quote: “Conservatives may worship Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand,’ but for Obama, the helping hand comes in large measure from the public, not the private sector. To call this ‘socialism’ is to do violence to the word and to the concept. To call it ‘un-American’ is a smear.”

8. “Conservatives may worship Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand,’ but for Obama, the helping hand comes in large measure from the public, not the private sector. To call this ‘socialism’ is to do violence to the word and to the concept. To call it ‘un-American’ is a smear.”

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Jeff Greenfield Quote: “If Obama’s vision of the public sector is socialism, then so too were the visions of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.”

9. “If Obama’s vision of the public sector is socialism, then so too were the visions of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.”

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Jeff Greenfield Quote: “Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans.”

10. “Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans.”

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Jeff Greenfield Quote: “Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot .”

11. “Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot .”

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Jeff Greenfield Quote: “Describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial: These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.”

12. “Describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial: These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.”

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Jeff Greenfield Quote: “After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the ’90s, I came away believing that the case for scrapping it is less obvious than I originally thought.”

13. “After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the ’90s, I came away believing that the case for scrapping it is less obvious than I originally thought.”

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Jeff Greenfield Quote: “Think about one of the most powerful influences on a young child’s life – the absence of a father figure. Look back on recent presidents, and you’ll find an absent, or weak, or failed father in the lives of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.”

14. “Think about one of the most powerful influences on a young child’s life – the absence of a father figure. Look back on recent presidents, and you’ll find an absent, or weak, or failed father in the lives of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.”

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Jeff Greenfield Quote: “There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as well be called laws of nature.”

15. “There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as well be called laws of nature.”

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Jeff Greenfield Quote: “As a personal matter, I stopped voting more than a decade ago, on the grounds that it helped me as an analyst not to think about making a choice in the voting booth.”

16. “As a personal matter, I stopped voting more than a decade ago, on the grounds that it helped me as an analyst not to think about making a choice in the voting booth.”

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Jeff Greenfield Quote: “Victory has 1,000 fathers; defeat has 1,000 kibitzers.”

17. “Victory has 1,000 fathers; defeat has 1,000 kibitzers.”

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Jeff Greenfield Quote: “I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math.”

18. “I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math.”

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Jeff Greenfield Quote: “For millions, Roger Ebert will be remembered as a writer and television personality who brought a sense of passion and excellence to his craft. For me, he is a man who fused joy and courage as few others ever have. My life was enriched by having such a friend; it is poorer for losing such a friend.”

19. “For millions, Roger Ebert will be remembered as a writer and television personality who brought a sense of passion and excellence to his craft. For me, he is a man who fused joy and courage as few others ever have. My life was enriched by having such a friend; it is poorer for losing such a friend.”

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Jeff Greenfield Quote: “More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.”

20. “More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.”

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Jeff Greenfield 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?”

21. “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?”

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Jeff Greenfield Quote: “Protestations of indifference to higher office are hard to take seriously when the ‘non-candidate’ is busily engaged in testing the waters.”

22. “Protestations of indifference to higher office are hard to take seriously when the ‘non-candidate’ is busily engaged in testing the waters.”

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Jeff Greenfield Quote: “Television is one of the most fickle businesses that there are, you are in favour one minute and out the next.”

23. “Television is one of the most fickle businesses that there are, you are in favour one minute and out the next.”

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Jeff Greenfield Quote: “In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including ’debate prep.”

24. “In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including ’debate prep.”

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Jeff Greenfield 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.”

25. “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

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