Voters dont have to love him, Romney advisers say, but they will respect him. – Ron Fournier
Washingtons answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The fiscal cliff process was secretive and sloppy, and the nations so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt. – Ron Fournier
If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia. – Ron Fournier
Were living in an era of unprecedented change, and I want to be a part of documenting it. – Ron Fournier
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Friendship,” Essays, 1841