Ron Suskind
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"Ronald Steven "Ron" Suskind" is a Pulitzer Prize winning American journalist and best-selling author. He was the senior national affairs writer for The Wall Street Journal from 1993 to 2000 and has published the books A Hope in the Unseen, The Price of Loyalty, The One Percent Doctrine, The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism/The Way of the World, Confidence Men, and his memoir Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism. He won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for articles in the Wall Street Journal that became the starting point for his first book, A Hope in the Unseen. Suskind has written books on the George W. Bush Administration, the Barack Obama Administration, and related issues of the United States' use of power.

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I am certain O'Neill never had it.

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A carefully vetted group of more than 240 executives, economists, and even a few labor leaders was being assembled, ... They'd seem diverse and independent to the untrained eye. In fact, nearly every one would be a Bush supporter and many were major fundraisers. Attendance was, in a way, a reward for support.

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There are memos, ... One of them marked 'secret' says 'Plan for Post-Saddam Iraq.'

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From the start, we were building the case against Hussein and looking at how we could take him out and change Iraq into a new country. And, if we did that, it would solve everything. It was about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it -- the president saying, 'Fine. Go find me a way to do this.' .

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Haven't we already given money to rich people... Shouldn't we be giving money to the middle?

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He got the documents from lawyers at the Treasury Department when he made a request after he left.

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We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating new realities ... we're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.

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We are an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.

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