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 thought I had a chance to win the douche bag of the year award 3 years running. It was just Tucker Carlson and I until this whole filibustering judges and douche bag sponsorship issue came up.
With nearly two years remaining in his presidency, George W. Bush is alone. In half a century, I have not seen a president so isolated from his own party in Congress - not Jimmy Carter, not even Richard Nixon as he faced impeachment. Republicans in Congress do not trust their president to protect them.
I'm 72-years-old. There's not a hell of a lot they can do to me. I will continue to report what I see and what I feel to be true.
We would want to exhaust every possible means for a peaceful solution, and I think that is the vocation of the Security Council.
Let me just finish, James, please, ... I know you hate to hear me, but you have to.
That's what I think. That's why I brought it in here. I didn't want to make a mess in my office.
Well, I think that's bull---- and I hate that, ... Just let it go.
It's senseless terror. It doesn't intimidate anybody. It doesn't relax anybody's resolve. It's just a personal tragedy.
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.
It's news, and it reflects an attitude in this White House of holding back information, of being too clever by half and being secretive.
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.
It is up to the government to keep the government's secrets, ... Meet the Press.
It's a different level of use than we've seen in the past. It's becoming more of a full-day listening experience as opposed to just when you're jogging.