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Jimmy Breslin Quotes

American - Entertainer | October 17, 1930 -

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

Lunch Politicians Interest Hotels

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.

Father Business Man New York City

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

Small Nothing Thieves Rule Steal

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

Football Game Streets Keep Coal Off

I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines.

Life Job Beer Writing Rest My Life

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.

Past Language Cheerful In The Past

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

Business Best Person Never Been

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

Men Politics Fat Bald Teach Stage

Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood.

Live People Speak Friends Back Wall

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

Personality You Place Stop First

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

Me Television News Why Over Chain

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.

Man Tears You Profit News Against

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