“ Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage. Jimmy Breslin
“ The office of the president is such a bastardized thing half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit. Jimmy Breslin
“ When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place. Jimmy Breslin
“ Life never was long enough to provide time for enemies. Nor is it long enough for people who bore me, or for me to stand around boring and antagonizing others, or for all of us, the others and me, to… Jimmy Breslin
“ True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is not likely to be interesting. Jimmy Breslin
