Jimmy Breslin Quotes

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

When you leave New York you ain't going anywhere.

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.

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.

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.

Media, the plural of mediocrity.

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

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

The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.