Elizabeth Drew > Quotes

“The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.”
― Elizabeth Drew

“Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. ”
― Elizabeth Drew

“It is important to remember now, amid all this debris, how frightened we used to be.”
― Elizabeth Drew, Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon's Downfall

“And as the story unfolded before the Ervin committee, it began to take on the characteristics of a Russian novel. Someone we had never heard of suddenly emerged as an agent in activities that were almost inconceivable.”
― Elizabeth Drew, Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon's Downfall

“A telling example of what it has all come to can be found in the person of Rick Santorum, the junior Republican senator from Pennsylvania. Elected to the House in 1990 and then the Senate in 1994, Santorum, forty, is the apotheosis of the brash newer member who imposes himself on the working order of the Senate, demonstrates little respect for the institution, becomes a one-man ideological enforcer, and brings down the level of civility. Toothy, with a shock of dark hair, Santorum looks the perfect pol for the television age. Unburdened by brilliance, he makes his impact through pestiferousness.”
― Elizabeth Drew, Corruption of American Politics: What Went Wrong and Why

“Things could be worse now. Agnew could be the Vice-President.”
― Elizabeth Drew, Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon's Downfall

“The Congress often pays little attention to how the laws are carried out by the executive, how the office of the President is executed, or whether the Constitution is being preserved.”
― Elizabeth Drew, Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon's Downfall

“The creation of illusions is part of the process of clothing our government in some dignity. The predisposition to trust our leaders, despite some of the things we know about them, bespeaks an understanding that every free society has to proceed on trust.”
― Elizabeth Drew, Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon's Downfall