The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.

- David Remnick

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 extinctio…

- David Remnick

A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. …

- David Remnick

I got in journalism for any number of reasons, not least because it's so much fun. Journalism should be in the business of putting pressure on power,…

- David Remnick

Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to…

- David Remnick

I don't know that Donald Trump is anything more to Putin than what Lenin called a poleznye durak, a useful idiot.

- David Remnick

I know from my conversations with people in the administration that every world leader that Obama met in Berlin, in Peru, in Athens was extremely ala…

- David Remnick

Donald Trump's temperament and character is precisely what you would hate to see in your children, much less your president.

- David Remnick

Being an editor it's a complicated job, but the last impression I'd want anybody to have is that it's onerous. It's a joy - a complicated joy, but a …

- David Remnick