Richard Cohen Quotes

Richard Cohen pushes a persuasive pitch, blending sales talk with identity themes.

13 quotes

  1. Now that you have seen how I help people transition from homosexual to straight, you can buy my new book or you can purchase my therapeutic tapes, and don't forget my hope and healing videos. I'm also available for speaking engagements. And, of course, I take credit cards. God bless. Amen. Be straight.

  2. Myths have a certain staying power because, really, they are aspirational - not always who we are, but always who we want to be. We see ourselves as good and generous. We believe we are a virtuous nation.

  3. We are a segmented society, living in our individual bubbles.

  4. Maybe the best example of the unmuscled hero is Humphrey Bogart in 'Casablanca.' Bogart was 15 years older than Ingrid Bergman, and it did not matter at all. He had the experience, the confidence, the internal strength that can only come with age.

  5. Israel may be beloved, but for American security, it is not essential.

  6. We grow up to respect the gray. Black or white, one or the other, is childish. It represents the worldview of someone who does not know the world.

  7. The ultimate question is whether the name Donald Trump will be attached to an era - whether he will so change America that it will never be the same afterward.

  8. When I was a kid, I went door to door in my neighborhood asking for donations to the Jewish National Fund, best known then for its Israel forestation program. At the age of 11 or so, I imagined myself a regular Johnny Appleseed, responsible for vast forests.

  9. I met Clinton during her husband's first campaign for the White House. It was 1992, New Hampshire, and both Clintons had stopped at a coffee shop to greet the folks and get something to eat.

  10. In power politics, it's usually not enough to be liked. A nation has to be considered essential.

  11. Heroism is a matter of choice.

  12. My father was raised in an orphanage, and my mother was an immigrant from Poland whose first childhood memory was of hunger. Somehow, despite all of that, I am called a member of the 'elite.' If so, I damned well earned it.

  13. It's all right with me if Roman Polanski is freed by the Swiss authorities who have detained him at the request of the United States - if first I get a chance to bust him one in the mouth.