123 Quotes by Ben Fountain

If you're looking for the phony in American politics, you could do worse than follow the money.

In the arsenal of the phony, the politics of God is one of the deadliest punches to the sweet spot of the American mind.

Pretty much any day is a good day to go to the ballpark, but that first day of the season is special. It's spring. The grass is green. Pessimism is impossible - at least, until the other team scores.

American history is not clean.

Learning essential stuff is as much a discipline as going to the gym or sticking to a diet, and an excellent antidote for the modern condition of being numb and dumb.

We, America, elected Trump. Putin didn't do it, nor the trolls in St. Petersburg with their zillions of busy bots. They may well have plucked certain strings in the national psyche - played us like a dimestore ukulele - but we were keen to be plucked.

Obama was elected on the shoulders of an incipient movement that he allowed to languish once he became president.

In true demagogic fashion, Trump bypassed the head and spoke directly to the gut, to the biles and bubbling acids of raw emotion.

People rarely grow in humility once they reach the White House.