88 Quotes by Jimmy Breslin

Reporting is all about legwork, getting out and finding the story. But all the stories are on the top floors, so you have to learn to climb stairs. That's what reporting is all about, climbing tenement stairs.

The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.

If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.

Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious!

The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.

Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.

The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.

Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.

Politics: where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.