It's much more fun to run a political campaign than it is to be the candidate. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“A totally befuddled voter may look at a Vote for McGovern sign and do just that.” — 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
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
The McGovern/McCarthy type candidacies have disappointed too many people, because of a disillusionment with the candidates themselves. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I voted for Ralph Nader in 2000, but I will not make that mistake again. The joke is over for Nader. He… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
What the hell is the sense of trying to hold the Democratic party together, if it's really a party of expediency, something… — 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
Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“I had a soft spot in my heart for Ronald Regan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth, and… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
In four short years he has turned our country from a prosperous nation at peace into a desperately indebted nation at war.… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
That is the problem with this rich and anguished generation. Somewhere a long time ago they fell in love with the idea… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Newt Gingrich had his victory, too. Remember the Republican Revolution of 1994? Now the only people who still have any respect for… — 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
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
Did you see Bush on TV, trying to debate? Jesus, he talked like a donkey with no brains at all...It was pitiful...I… — 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
Bush is a natural-born loser with a filthy-rich daddy who pimped his son out to rich oil-mongers. He hates music, football and… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“The prevailing wisdom today is that any candidate in a standard-brand, two-party election will get about 40 percent of the vote. The… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I think it might be better to have the President sort of like the King of England - or the Queen -… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“In other words, the weight of the evidence filtering down from the high brain-rooms of both the New York Times and the… — 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
“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
“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
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
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
“The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs” — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
He wandered into the Newsroom and asked for a job the same way he’d walk into a barbershop and ask for a haircut, and… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
There’s a lot of things wrong with this country, but one of the few things still right with it is that a man can… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
