Leadership Quote by Charlie Norwood

"Terrific print information" is Washington-speak with a smile and a shiv tucked behind it. Charlie Norwood, a blunt, media-savvy congressman from Georgia, is complimenting someone for producing material that cuts through the noise of a capital built on noise. The phrasing matters: not "reporting" or "facts", but "print information" - a foggy, transactional term that can mean anything from a well-sourced investigation to a strategically timed leak, a dossier, or opposition research dressed up as public interest. "Terrific" is the sugar. The rest is the signal.

The line flatters the recipient's power without naming it directly. In D.C., attention is a currency, and print is the old-school mint: clipped, circulated, filed, then resurfaced when a vote needs swinging or a narrative needs breaking. Norwood's "in this town" lands like an eye roll. It's shorthand for a place where policy arguments often lose to whatever makes tomorrow's paper, where credibility is negotiated in column inches, and where the people who can generate "information" - staffers, lobbyists, reporters, watchdogs - become shadow participants in the legislative process.

Intent-wise, it's praise with a practical edge: keep it coming, and keep aiming it. Subtext-wise, it acknowledges an ecosystem where politicians respond less to moral suasion than to the threat (or promise) of visibility. Norwood isn't confessing corruption; he's admitting the operating system. The rhetorical trick is that it sounds like gratitude while quietly validating a harder truth: in Washington, attention doesn't follow importance - importance is often manufactured by attention.