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

Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover.

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.

Rage is ... This is Breslin's full quote: Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers

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

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

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

That's the horrible thing starting out, you get distracted a lot because anything is easier than writing. It's just the same enemy - blank paper.

The test of a good idea is its ability to last through a hangover

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.

Media, the plural of mediocrity.

Sunglasses are the best invention of world.Its hide the eyes which speak more then lips

Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in a cradle forever.

I like to wake up each morning feeling a new man.

What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.

There is no better investment of time and money than in the life of a child. They are the future.

It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.

I happen to support that in a way that will actually work to our benefit.

Your home is that thing to which you can dedicate your energies with such singular devotion that the ultimate results become inconsequential.

I've always wondered what it means to the Republican Party to be pro-Israel. My husband says that is is because certain sects of Christianity need Jews in Israel for the second coming.

So that's who Finnick loves, I think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad girl back home.