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 interes…

- Jimmy Breslin

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 agains…

- Jimmy Breslin

Governments mostly don't do much. And you've also got to understand the level of incompetence out there. Nobody knows what they're doing. They just p…

- Jimmy Breslin

All political power is primarily an illusion. Illusion. Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished mirr…

- Jimmy Breslin

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

- Jimmy Breslin

Media, the plural of mediocrity.

- Jimmy Breslin

Journalism should be truthful and entertaining. You know, with news and important facts you can entertain people too. Have a little humor. Life isn't…

- Jimmy Breslin

A job on a newspaper is a special thing. Every day you take something that you found out about, and you put it down and in a matter of hours it becom…

- Jimmy Breslin

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

- Jimmy Breslin