Adam Clymer Quotes

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

This is one of his core issues, one of the things he has been concerned about the longest. - Adam Clymer

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

It isn't clear to me, and it isn't clear to people at the paper, exactly why the waiver wasn't acceptable in its earlier form when other people found ways to find it acceptable. - Adam Clymer

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

I don't think the Times looks any better today than it did yesterday. - 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

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

A lot of the reporters have really been wondering and doubting their editors. It wasn't that they knew the defense of Judy was wrong, but they didn't have a sense of what was being defended. . . . People all over the paper think the Times should have been covering the story harder. - Adam Clymer

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