Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Adam Clymer

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American journalist Adam Clymer.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Adam Clymer was an American journalist. He was a prolific political correspondent for The New York Times.

American - Journalist | April 27, 1937 - September 10, 2018

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There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.

Adam Clymer

Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.

Adam Clymer

When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.

Adam Clymer

I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.

Adam Clymer

Ted Kennedy is the only person alive who might know more than we do about Chappaquiddick, and he may not.

Adam Clymer

Democratic politicians have disliked things I've written, Republican politicians... if they all love you, you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck.

Adam Clymer

Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language.

Adam Clymer

Ted Kennedy's achievements as a senator have towered over his time, changing the lives of far more Americans than remember the name Mary Jo Kopechne.

Adam Clymer