Mike Royko Quotes

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  It’s much harder to be a liberal than a conservative. Why? Because it’s easier to give someone the finger than a helping hand.

  Mike Royko

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• 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 poor, or even a little poorer.

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• When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.

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• Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.

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• 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 columns.

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• Hollywood has always been political. They consider it their right and duty to tell us what is politically good and right.

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• Contrary to popular belief. It’s much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich.

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• It’s been my policy to view the Internet not as an ‘information highway,’ but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.

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• 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 do, there is one obvious cooking tip: Always remember to remove the bell from the cat’s collar before cooking.

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• The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It’s an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.

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• I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.

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• Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.

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• God tipped the country and all the fruits and nuts rolled west.

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• 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 forgiving of public people. They didn’t think they had to stick someone in jail to make a career.

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Birth:	19th September, 1932
Death:	29th April, 1997
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Columnist, Journalist

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