John Avlon

John Avlon

John Phillips Avlon (born January 19, 1973) is an American journalist and political commentator. He is a Senior Political Analyst and fill-anchor at CNN and former editor-in-chief and managing director of The Daily Beast from 2013 to 2018. Avlon has also been a columnist and associate editor for The New York Sun and chief speechwriter for former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Quotes

• Politics is history in the present tense.
  • Avlon, John (June 6, 2008). Obama's Bridge Between MLK and RFK. Real Clear Politics.

• The far-right and far-left can be equally insane.
  • Retting, Jessica (April 8, 2010). The Rise of Political Extremism and the Decline of Decency. US News.

• Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.
  • Retting, Jessica (April 8, 2010). The Rise of Political Extremism and the Decline of Decency. US News.

• Extremes are ultimately their own side's worst enemy.
  • Avlon, John (May 19, 2011). Republican Governor Popularity Plummets, From Ohio's Kasich to Florida's Scott to Wisconsin's Walker. The Daily Beast.

• Terrorism is always one bad day away from being issue No. 1.
  • Avlon, John (May 2, 2011). Savor this moment, in the name of the 3,000. CNN.

• Demagogues always do well in economic downturns.
  • Avlon, John (September 2, 2010). Glenn Beck and the History of America’s Worst Demagogues. The Daily Beast.

• Professional partisans are still playing politics by industrial-age rules. They haven’t woken up to the information-age reality. Younger generations have grown up with a multiplicity of choice on every front, which can be tailored to suit their individual beliefs. Politics is the last place where we are supposed to be satisfied with a choice between Brand A and Brand B.
  • M., R. (May 16, 2010). Six questions for John Avlon. The Economist.

• If you only take offense when the president of your party is compared to Hitler, then you're part of the problem.
  • Gerson, Michael (June 30, 2010). The Ugly Party vs. the Grown-Up Party. The Washington Post.

• Us and against them is the opposite of our national motto, e pluribus unum: Out of many, one.
  • Avlon, John (August 28, 2018). John McCain's goodbye is in classic tradition of Washington's Farewell. CNN.

• The independence of our nation is inseparable from our interdependence as a people.
  • Avlon, John (January 2017) (in English). Washington's Farewell (Hardcover ed.). New York: Simon and Schuster. pp. 284. ISBN 978-1-4767-4646-3. 

• Semi-obvious but bears repeating: Much of the evil in the world comes from seeing and judging people as members of groups rather than individuals.
  • Avlon, John (April 15, 2018). John Avlon Tweet. Twitter.

External links

• John Avlon's Website
• John Avlon at CNN
• Best of John Avlon on CNN
• John Avlon at The Daily Beast
• John Avlon on C-SPAN