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The whole point of Israel was to create a place where Jews could live the best life - and liveliest - in accordance with their values.

The average-guy routine works only so much, and then people begin to want something more.

Richard Ben Cramer

It's very hard to imagine anybody being president when the stuff that's written about them is empty of who they are.

Richard Ben Cramer

This book-promotion stuff is like a political campaign. You work your butt off, and at the end of the day, you can't tell if it's made a damned bit of difference.

Richard Ben Cramer

When there are fewer and fewer publishers of scale, it's just not good for authors.

Richard Ben Cramer

I think the story of DiMaggio was alluring precisely for its impossibility.

Richard Ben Cramer

We're still in the ditch, and the Gennifer Flowers story about Bill Clinton says it all. A tabloid fired several bullets into the air, and the rest of the herd began to stampede.

Richard Ben Cramer

I was with the mujaheddin, the rebels, and they were fighting against the Russians, and they would bring me along. Some of the adventures, when I look back at them now, it's a wonder I'm still around.

Richard Ben Cramer

Don't be the schmuck on the other side of the table. Don't get an interview with the guy. Be in the room with him while he's being interviewed by someone else.

Richard Ben Cramer

He's made a business out of being Joe DiMaggio. To remain Joe DiMaggio, you better not have too much known. He's right. The closer you get, the more explosively bad stuff you find.

Richard Ben Cramer

The expectations for a nonfiction writer are awful high.

Richard Ben Cramer

The whole point of Israel was to create a place where Jews could live the best life - and liveliest - in accordance with their values.

Richard Ben Cramer

If you're following candidates in a campaign, you get on their plane, and what they're generally doing is they're dividing the cost of that charter flight by the number of reporters they're carrying aboard. In effect, the press is buying them that campaign flight.

Richard Ben Cramer

The first time I met Alex Rodriguez, he was in the fight of his life. He was the guy who was supposed to have everything - good looks, good health, good habits - all the talent in the world and most of the money.

Richard Ben Cramer

Certainly no man could be such an irredeemable 'schlub' as the American press portrays its losers.

Richard Ben Cramer

TV is set up to be just a shout fest: Is this good for Republicans or bad for Republicans; is this good for Cain or bad for Cain... tell me something that I need to know.

Richard Ben Cramer

You can say you're going to take a vacation, and you can even take the time, but you might as well not, because the book is still sitting in your head.

Richard Ben Cramer

After the presidency, there's nowhere else to go in politics.

Richard Ben Cramer

People feel overloaded, that politics has become kind of a public utility: hot- and cold-running politics any time of the day or night.

Richard Ben Cramer