“Assassins, like politicians and journalists, are not attracted to losers.” — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
A man never stoops so low as when he rises to the challenge of politics. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“...if that Watergate case ever gets into court, he might get very nervous.” — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked ... and like any other junkie, he'sa bummer… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Any kind of political campaign that taps the kind of energy that nothing else can reach would generate a tremendous high for… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Hubert Humphrey is a treacherous, gutless old ward-heeler who should be put in a goddamn bottle and sent out with the Japanese… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Real happiness, in politics, is a wide-open hammer shot on some poor bastard who knows he's been trapped, but can't flee.” — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
You almost have to be a rock star to generate the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“McGovern made some stupid mistakes, but in context they seem almost frivolous compared to the things Richard Nixon does every day of… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The most consistent and ultimately damaging failure of political journalism in America (is that it) has its roots in the clubby/cocktail personal… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Nixon was a professional politician, and I despised everything he stood for -- but if he were running for president this year… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The whole framework of the presidency is getting out of hand. It's come to the point where you almost can't run unless… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“A lot of blood has gone under the bridge since then, and we have all learned a hell of a lot about… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Why are we seeing George Bush on TV every two hours for nine or ten days at a time, like some kind… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people, anyway. For years I've regarded his very existence as a monument to… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
It is Nixon himself who represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character that almost every country in… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world—a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Whatever else the Florida primary might or might not have proved, it put a definite kink in the Media Theory of politics.… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“For several months they'd been drifting toward political involvement, but the picture was hazy and one of the most confusing elements was… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Revenge is one of the few things in politics that never gets lost in the mail or written off for a dime… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“It was like a scene from the final hours of the Roman Empire: Everywhere you looked, some prominent politician was degrading himself… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“To crank up a noisy bad stance out in a place like San Francisco and start yelling about “getting things done in… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“The prevailing quality of life in America -- by any accepted methods of measuring -- was unarguably freer and more politically open… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
If you work in either journalism or politics... you will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“There was also the fact that sending a penniless writer to get $135 worth of beer was — as Khrushchev said of Nixon —… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Cases of champagne and scotch lay broken in the street, and everyone I saw had a bottle. They were screaming and dancing, and in… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
No one holds command over me. No man. No god. No Prince. What is a claim of age for ones who are immortal? What… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs” — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
At age 22 I set what I insist is an all-time record for distance hitchhiking in Bermuda shorts: 3,700 miles in three weeks. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“No doubt they all Got What Was Coming To Them. All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“For several months they'd been drifting toward political involvement, but the picture was hazy and one of the most confusing elements was their geographical… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
