There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save o…

- Jeff Greenfield

After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the '90s, I came away believing that the case for scrapping i…

- Jeff Greenfield

In politics, Bugs Bunny always beats Daffy Duck. Daffy's always going berserk, jumping up and down, yelling. Bugs's got that sly smile, like he alway…

- Jeff Greenfield

Conservatives may worship Adam Smith's 'invisible hand,' but for Obama, the helping hand comes in large measure from the public, not the private sect…

- Jeff Greenfield

More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.

- Jeff Greenfield

In every debate, whatever the format, whatever the questions, there is one and only one way to identify the winner: Who commands the room? Who drives…

- Jeff Greenfield

Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.

- Jeff Greenfield

As a personal matter, I stopped voting more than a decade ago, on the grounds that it helped me as an analyst not to think about making a choice in t…

- Jeff Greenfield

Victory has 1,000 fathers; defeat has 1,000 kibitzers.

- Jeff Greenfield