R. W. Apple, Jr.

“Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.”

“He campaigns in poetry, but he governs in prose.”

“I have always believed that the great advantage of a life of journalism is that it is a life of permanent education.”

“The first lesson of a foreign correspondent is that things are not what they seem.”

“The great thing about being a foreign correspondent is that you are in a situation, on a good day, where you are writing the first draft of history.”

“In more than 40 years of covering politics, I've seen it all. Or so I thought.”