Top 19 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Novak

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American journalist Robert Novak.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Robert Novak

Robert David Sanders Novak was an American syndicated columnist, journalist, television personality, author, and conservative political commentator. After working for two newspapers before serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, he became a reporter for the Associated Press and then for The Wall Street Journal. He teamed up with Rowland Evans in 1963 to start Inside Report, which became the longest running syndicated political column in U.S. history and ran in hundreds of papers. They also started the Evans-Novak Political Report, a notable biweekly newsletter, in 1967.

I'd like CBS, at this point, to say where they got those documents from. I think they should say where they got these documents because I thought it was a very poor job of reporting by CBS.
If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives.
He was my favorite senator... I love him. He made the liberals squeal.
CNN canceled all the shows I was on. They're going in a different direction, but that's their privilege. They own the business.
Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled over what he thinks he is accomplishing politically. Is it good politics to contend that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein than even a flawed Islamic republic?
The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey's clothes.
I didn't dig it out, it was given to me. They thought it was significant, they gave me the name and I used it.
It is up to the government to keep the government's secrets.
Nobody from the administration has officially rejected my column. — © Robert Novak
Nobody from the administration has officially rejected my column.
Even after the Rosenthal column, nobody responsible in the Republican Party said, 'Yes, Pat Buchanan is an anti-Semite.' They didn't join in. Very few journalists joined in. What happened was, when he entered the presidential politics, then he entered a new level of criticism and attack on him.
With nearly two years remaining in his presidency, George W. Bush is alone. In half a century, I have not seen a president so isolated from his own party in Congress - not Jimmy Carter, not even Richard Nixon as he faced impeachment. Republicans in Congress do not trust their president to protect them.
I'm 72-years-old. There's not a hell of a lot they can do to me. I will continue to report what I see and what I feel to be true.
Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled over what he thinks he is accomplishing politically. Is it good politics to contend that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein than even a flawed Islamic republic.
Always love your country - but never trust your government! — © Robert Novak
Always love your country - but never trust your government!
Gary Hart is going to be all over the political spectrum fuzzing it up just like Jack Kennedy.
The member of Congress who is not making a career of politics looks quite differently at the world.
It is hard to write about politicians, see them at such close range, and still think of any of them as heroes.
Where once such devices were relegated to appropriate times, now they've become necessities. The other day I watched a kid come off the school bus listening to music on his headphones, oblivious to the traffic zooming past him. And I can't even begin to count the times I've thought pet owners were talking to their dogs while taking them for a walk when, in reality, they were blabbing on their cell phones. It's a different level of use than we've seen in the past, ... It's becoming more of a full-day listening experience as opposed to just when you're jogging.
I was kind of feeling a spiritual need all those years. My wife Geraldine and I went to an Episcopalian Church for a while. Oh, it just seemed very political to me that a guy so liberal was talking about opposing the war in Vietnam and I didn't want to hear that when I went to church. I wanted something spiritual.
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