What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color… — John Gunther Copy Share Image
New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the inferno with… — John Gunther Copy Share Image
[Chicago] is the greatest and most typically American of all cities. New York is bigger and more spectacular and can outmatch it in other… — John Gunther Copy Share Image
The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you. — John Gunther Copy Share Image
It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill. — John Gunther Copy Share Image
The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the… — John Gunther Copy Share Image
![“[Chicago] is the greatest and most typically American of all cities. New York is bigger and more spectacular and can outmatch it in other superlatives, but it is a "world" city, more European in some respects than American.” quote by John Gunther](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b98/john-gunther-24750_bigger_chicago-is-the-greatest-and-most-typical_326243.jpg)
