UnPresidented Quotes

“To pose what I think can now be called the Mrs Merton question: what was it about a $2 million book advance that led you to keep this information from Congress, and instead save it for publication/serialisation?”
― Jon Sopel, UnPresidented: Politics, Pandemics and the Race that Trumped all Others

“I think that far from defeating extremist views, we are creating a fertile breeding ground for populism to grow and spread; where the ‘banished’ become quasi-martyred souls who have been cast out by a fearful establishment – and their videos will spread like a virus on the internet. We are then succumbing to a ‘yes I agree totally’ world, where all we can tolerate listening to are our own views being played back to us, echoing satisfyingly our world view, our heads nodding approvingly. That does not serve democracy well.”
― Jon Sopel, UnPresidented: Politics, Pandemics and the Race that Trumped all Others