Suskind, Ron Filmography

• The Rogue
  2014, role: miscellaneous crew
• The World According to Dick Cheney
  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself - Author, The One Percent Doctrine
• Blueprint for Accountability: Working the Dark Side
  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself

Famous quotes by Ron Suskind:

"A carefully vetted group of more than 240 executives, economists, and even a few labor leaders was being assembled, ... They'd seem diverse and independent to the untrained eye. In fact, nearly every one would be a Bush supporter and many were major fundraisers. Attendance was, in a way, a reward for support."

"He got the documents from lawyers at the Treasury Department when he made a request after he left."

"From the start, we were building the case against Hussein and looking at how we could take him out and change Iraq into a new country. And, if we did that, it would solve everything. It was about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it -- the president saying, 'Fine. Go find me a way to do this.'"

"I am certain O'Neill never had it,"

"We are an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality."

"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating new realities ... we're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

"Haven't we already given money to rich people... Shouldn't we be giving money to the middle?"

"There are memos, ... One of them marked 'secret' says 'Plan for Post-Saddam Iraq.'"

"Other administrations ceded to fact, and saw the benefit - the value - to meaningful public dialogue based on fact. They understood that was one of their obligations, to engage with people who were there to ask pointed and pertinent questions and demand answers to them. They understood that's how it worked and that that was the precedent. This administration has said, 'What does that have to do with me'?"

"The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen."

"Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches."

"I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status."

"The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government."

"To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power - it's difficult. This administration has evolved new techniques to handle people like me. Their strategy, in a word, is simple: ignore them."

"I don't have to deal with the issues of the daily news cycle."

"When you get people standing up saying, 'I'm going to just tell the truth; what do we have to fear?,' it encourages others, and it creates a counterresponse."

"The informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere."

"The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious."

"If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost immediately when it appears in the paper or a magazine, that somebody gets called into the boss's office. And sometimes it can result in a loss of access for the reporter."