Quotes from Ron Suskind

All of the leading terrorism experts are clear on one thing: that in terms of protecting America, we are almost never going to know a place or a time of an attack.

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

Message matters. Message matters almost as much as actions.

Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches.

I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status.

Al-Qaeda has a kind of loose, almost entrepreneurial structure with lots of cells in various countries that are semi-independent.

It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying

You try to hold on to some notions you might have had before, that this will somehow work out, this is a spell that will lift or be broken.

Confidence is the public face of competence.

By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.

When you get people standing up saying, 'I'm going to just tell the truth; what do we have to fear?,' it encourages others, and it creates a counterresponse.