Jack Germond Quotes


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

My liberal friends are such a bunch soft-headed politically correct jerks...

Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.

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.

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.

I loved politics and I confess I enjoyed politicians immensely.

Television doesn't like politics very well if you can infer that from the way they cover it.

The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.

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?

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

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.