88 Quotes by Jimmy Breslin

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    Politicians attend dinners at hotels with contractors. Bankers discuss interest rates at lunch.

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    Donald Trump handles these nitwit reporters with a new and most disgraceful form of bribery.

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    Trump survives by Corum's Law. This is a famous, well-tested theory and is named after Bill Corum, who once wrote sports for the Hearst papers when they were in New York.

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    A politician finds anything to do with racial problems far more frightening than a gun.

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    Trump, in the crinkling of an eye, senses better than anyone the insecurity of people, that nobody knows whether anything is good or bad until they are told, and he is quite willing to tell them immediately.

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    The trouble with Trump's father was that he was a totally naive man. He had no idea that you could buy the whole news reporting business in New York City with a return phone call.

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

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    I'm the best person ever to have a column in this business. There's never been anybody in my league.

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    Some time ago, I made a basic decision about the way in which I was going to live the little of life available to me The idea was to place myself in the presence of only those people who give off the warm, friendly vibrations which soothe the coating on my nerves. Life never was long enough to provide time for enemies.

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