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I don’t really care if people think we’re bad,” said another. “I think this is what really keeps us going. We fight society and society fights us. It doesn’t bother me.

Don’t worry, boys, we’ll weather this storm of approval and come out as hated as ever – Saul Alinsky to his staff shortly before his death, June 1972.

Superstar politicians and superstar quarterbacks have the same kind of delicate egos, and people who life on that level grow very accustomed to very thin, rarified air. They have trouble breathing in the lower altitudes; and if they can’t breath right, they can’t function.

It was the tension between these two poles – a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other – that kept me going.

There is something about the sight of a passing motorcyclist that tempts many automobile drivers to commit murder.

As your attorney, I advise you to tell me where you put the goddamn mescaline.

And only those who can see above and beyond the American goal of respectable mediocrity can enjoy a life that leads to anything but a struggle to attain that end.

I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience – which is definitely an acquired taste.

I guess that’s one of the things about growing up in the fifties – it never occurred to me that you wouldn’t be at least as successful as your parents.

Cover a war in a place where you can’t drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!

You’d be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper.

Yeah, I guess I am,” said one. “But you’re looking at one loser who’s going to make a hell of a scene on the way out.

Assassins, like politicians and journalists, are not attracted to losers.

I measure my life in pages. If I have pages at dawn, it’s been a good night.

I may sound a little black, but I’m really pretty well adjusted.

I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.

Strong Quotes

I’ve been studying drugs for years.

Any candidate who’d offered a real possibility of an alternative to Nixon – someone with a different concept of the presidency – could have challenged him and come very close to beating him.

Real Quotes

I’ve already become a mastodon in print – I don’t see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

I wouldn’t be at all surprised, as hideous and dumb as it sounds, at an invasion of Iraq.

I don’t think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It’s lonely out here.

Sending Muskie against Nixon would have been like sending a three-toed sloth out to seize turf from a wolverine.

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don’t mind admitting any of them.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

Las Vegas makes Reno seem like your friendly neighborhood grocery store.

McGovern is the only major candidate – including Lindsay and Muskie – who invariably gives a straight answer when people raise these questions. He lines out the painful truth, and his reward has been just about the same as that of any other politician who insists on telling the truth: He is mocked, vilified, ignored, and abandoned as a hopeless loser by even his good old buddies like Harold Hughes. On.

The only thing wrong with the NBA – or any other professional sport, for that matter – is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules.

Sunday is not a good day for traveling in the South. Most public places are closed – especially the bars and taverns – in order that the denizens of this steamy, atavistic region will not be distracted from church. Sunday is the Lord’s day, and in the South he still has clout – or enough, at least, so that most folks won’t cross him in public. And those few who can’t make it to church will likely stay home by the fan, with iced tea, and worship him in their own way.

It’s the difference between watching a football game between two teams you don’t care about, and watching a game where you have some kind of personal identity with one of the teams, if only a huge bet.

If you consider the great journalists in history, you don’t see too many objective journalists on that list.

It’s much more fun to run a political campaign than it is to be the candidate.

Fun Quotes

Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn’t want.

The scene I had just witnessed brought back a lot of memories – not of things I have done but of things I have failed to do, wasted hours and frustrated moments and opportunities forever lost because time had eaten so much of my life and I would never get it back.

I’ll call New York for some cash.

Most of my stuff is just a series of false leads. I’ll approach a story as a subject and then make a whole bunch of different runs at the lead. They’re all good writing but they don’t connect. So I end up having to string leads together.

By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.

That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn’t entirely conquer – he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

One of the advantages of being dead, I guess, is that somebody else can edit all this.

Chicago – this vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, Mace-smelling boneyard of a city; an elegant rockpile monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt in the human spirit.

Whatever else might be said about Nixon – and there is still serious doubt in my mind that he could pass for Human – he is a goddamn stone fanatic on every facet of pro football.

I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.

Country Quotes

In four short years he has turned our country from a prosperous nation at peace into a desperately indebted nation at war. But so what? He is the President of the United States, and you’re not. Love it or leave it.

Country Quotes

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

I voted for Ralph Nader in 2000, but I will not make that mistake again. The joke is over for Nader. He was funny once, but now he belongs to the dead.

Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these Abu Ghraib photographs did.

I have always hated bowling, and I don’t mind admitting it.

We must have football. What would this country be without football in October?

Country Quotes

The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good...

One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and unacceptable beatings very soon. It happens every time.

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

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