Robert Novak
Robert Novak
Robert David Sanders "Bob" Novakwas an American syndicated columnist, journalist, television personality, author, and conservative political commentator. After working for two newspapers before serving for the U.S. Army in the Korean War, he became a reporter for the Associated Press and then for The Wall Street Journal. He teamed up with Rowland Evans in 1963 to start Inside Report, which became the longest running syndicated political column in U.S. history and ran in hundreds of papers. They also started the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth26 February 1931
CountryUnited States of America
I'm going to be 75 years old in February, and I was working too damn hard. I'm ready for a softer schedule. It won't be anything like what I was doing at CNN.
That had nothing to do with it, absolutely nothing. I was sorry he said that.
I'm personally outraged that we would decapitate the commander in chief at a time when we are at war abroad. Republicans sacrificed the national security by doing so. To be spending time of this House to smear our commander in chief when brave men and women are risking their lives for their country shocks the conscience.
Fear of a peace deal at the Bush White House had less to do with oil, Israel or Iraqi expansionism than with the bitter legacy of a lost war. 'This is the chance to get rid of the Vietnam Syndrome,' one senior aide told us.
The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party ... We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey's clothes.
A reform of a system that has grown ever more rotten must have two salient characteristics, in McCain's view. It must be bipartisan, and it must eviscerate, if not eliminate, earmarks.
so patently incorrect and so abuses my integrity as a journalist.
Tell me why the mayor is worried about fat people when he could be worried about this broken city. He could be putting lights on the streets instead of this.
I'd like CBS, at this point, to say where they got those documents from. I think they should say where they got these documents because I thought it was a very poor job of reporting by CBS.
I didn't dig it out, it was given to me. They thought it was significant, they gave me the name and I used it.
Nobody from the administration has officially rejected my column.
I apologize for my conduct and I'm sorry I did it, I'll follow their guidance.
Nobody in the Bush administration called me to leak this,
It's senseless terror. It doesn't intimidate anybody. It doesn't relax anybody's resolve. It's just a personal tragedy.