David Remnick Quotations

If this day means anything, it means that you are now in the contingent of the responsible. You must be kind, yes, but you must also look beyond your own house. We're depending on you for your efforts and your vision. We are depending on your eye and your imagination to identify what wrongs exist and persist, and on your hands, your backs, your efforts, to right them.

I actually have great hopes for the future.

Speaking to the subject is the most overrated thing in journalism,

Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.

Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time.

There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.

I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate.

Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian.

Not all political prisoners are innocents.

Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving.