Quote by Calvin Trillin
People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than i

People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldnt be something that interested them. – Calvin Trillin

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The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. – Calvin Trillin

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If its inappropriate to write about, if theres nothing funny about it, then its not funny. – Calvin Trillin

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I dont cook. I dont know anything about food. Ive never reviewed a restaurant. – Calvin Trillin

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In politics, yesterdays lie is attacked only to flatter todays. – Jean Rostand

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I dont think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people. – Paul Wellstone

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Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same – hardihood. Give them raw truth. – John Jay Chapman

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Theres a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies – the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who dont like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. Its not the coin of the realm in politics. – Ed Koch

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Money just draws flies. – Mahalia Jackson

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A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death. – Robert Maynard Hutchins

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