Quotes About Insight

I think the political class in Berlin doesn't need to be supervised and monitored by intelligence services in order to find out what they're thinking. Just go to lunch with them, go to dinner with them, or read the papers.

Business leaders should show what our political leaders seem to lack - that is, a common-sense view of the times.

I can't get inside the head of a politician today.

My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.

Having been a journalist for almost 20 years and then becoming a politician has definitely been an interesting and enriching experience for me.

I'm not interested in showing a politician falling over; it's about the issue and making people think differently about that.

Politicians often reveal most about themselves in unguarded moments.

I think politics is like an X-ray machine: Everything is found out eventually.

Am I the only person covering politics who ever noticed that Newt Gingrich is actually a nincompoop?

Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.

Our polling methodology has gotten outdated, and, in fact, it's not really telling us what it needs to be telling us.

I was the guy that told Bill Clinton he was going to win. I had gotten the final polling numbers. He had a comfortable lead. He was not going to lose.

I don't believe in traditional, head-to-head polling.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Personally, people know themselves very poorly.

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

I'm obviously a poptimist. I especially like pop music that isn't formulaic and has depth to it.

To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song. I guess it was just because I was really into music as a child, and I wanted it to say more. It was the thing, wasn't it? And now it isn't.

To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song.

A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.

What we need more than anything else is an informed populace. I believe people want to be informed.

Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.

Portray the world for what it is, and you will find truth.