Mike Royko Quotes

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• All that proves is that most of the world is too poor to build bowling alleys, golf courses, tennis courts and baseball fields. There's hundreds…
• Strict gun laws are about as effective as strict drug laws...It pains me to say this, but the NRA seems to be right: The cities…
• It's no coincidence that female interest in the sport of baseball has increased greatly since the ballplayers swapped those wonderful old-time baggy flannel uniforms for…
• A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it's gonna spill.
• Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck…
• It's unnatural for people to run around the city streets unless they are thieves or victims. It makes people nervous to see someone running. I…
• Whether one eats a cat or not is a personal choice, and I don't want to sway anyone one way or another. But if you…
• Newspapers, magazines and other publications have the constitutional right to be offensive, even disgusting. As evidence of that, just watch this space regularly.
• God tipped the country and all the fruits and nuts rolled west.
• It's much harder to be a liberal than a conservative. Why? Because it is easier to give someone the finger than a helping hand.
• When I asked him how long he had been driving a taxi, he said, Dree mouse.
• In attacking the young, the liberal, and the black, Daley was in the mainstream of America's mass prejudices. The Democratic party may have suffered by…
• There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values.' And that is to get right down to the…
• Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich.
• Reagan's approach will achieve one of the basic goals of the conservative: Things remain basically the same. The rich stay rich and the poor stay…
• Hollywood has always been political. They consider it their right and duty to tell us what is politically good and right.
• Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.
• When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.
• Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more…
• Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and…

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