Quote

Vladimir Putin wants to become the de facto head of an illiberal, xenophobic, hypernationalist trend in world politics.

David Remnick

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

David Remnick
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: October 29
Contributing Editor
Editor
Journalist
Writer
Hackensack
New Jersey
Trend
Putin
Trends
Wants
Head
Illiberal
Politics
Xenophobic
Become
Facto
World
Vladimir

More quotes by David Remnick

Image
There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.
David Remnick
Image
Being nervous, first of all, puts you at a distinct disadvantage, and if you've really prepared and if you've really thought through how to start the conversation, things start to fall into place. There are other things I get nervous about, but not that.
David Remnick
Image
Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.
David Remnick
Image
A huge constituency, such as Hispanics, is not 100 percent Democratic.
David Remnick
Image
I have to always remember, writing is really hard.
David Remnick
Image
I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since.
David Remnick
Image
The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.
David Remnick
Image
Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what's more, the population will hardly protest the extinction.
David Remnick
Image
Trump's rise is troubling not just on an American level but on an international level.
David Remnick
Image
I actually have great hopes for the future.
David Remnick
Image
Donald Trump lies with astonishing frequency and in stunning volume.
David Remnick
Image
I live in a country where, at least by my sense of arithmetic and justice, Al Gore should have been president, not George W. Bush. To this day, John Kerry probably thinks he won Ohio in 2004 because he had suspicions about the vote in Ohio. And, by the way, Richard Nixon had suspicions in 1960 about the vote in Chicago when he lost to JFK.
David Remnick
Image
I think the Electoral College is an absurd 18th-century construct. But that is the law.
David Remnick
Image
I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.
David Remnick
Image
Mobile is great for us. I think, even though the size of the screen doesn't give everything The New Yorker has to offer, people are spending a lot of time reading - and reading seriously - on the phone.
David Remnick
Image
I don't think there will be fascism in America, but we have to do everything we can to fight against it.
David Remnick
Image
The minority vote is growing, which is part of the alarm of so many Republicans and why Trump constantly whipped up their alarm with his racist statements.
David Remnick
Image
As journalists, we need to find every avenue to distribute our work, and try to be so good that we become increasingly more influential than before.
David Remnick
Image
You are losing because of Jewish bankers.
David Remnick
Image
There are two forms of populism, left-wing populism and right-wing populism. Right-wing populism requires the denigration of an Other. Left-wing populism tends to be about the haves and have-nots.
David Remnick