Jimmy Breslin
Jimmy Breslin

The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.

Jimmy Breslin
Jimmy Breslin

Media, the plural of mediocrity.

Jimmy Breslin
Jimmy Breslin

I'm the best person ever to have a column in this business. There's never been anybody in my league.

Jimmy Breslin
Jimmy Breslin

Trump survives by Corum's Law. This is a famous, well-tested theory and is named after Bill Corum, who once wrote sports for the Hearst papers when they were in New York.

Jimmy Breslin
Jimmy Breslin

Don't try to tell Namath's people on First Avenue about Babe Ruth, because they don't even know the name. In fact, with the young, you can forget all of baseball. The sport is gone. But if you ever have seen Ruth, and then you see Namath, you know there is very little difference.

Jimmy Breslin
Jimmy Breslin

Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.

Jimmy Breslin
Jimmy Breslin

Trump, in the crinkling of an eye, senses better than anyone the insecurity of people, that nobody knows whether anything is good or bad until they are told, and he is quite willing to tell them immediately.

Jimmy Breslin
Jimmy Breslin

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.

Jimmy Breslin
Jimmy Breslin

The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.

Jimmy Breslin
Jimmy Breslin

Never use your own money. Steal a good idea and say it's your own. Do anything to get publicity. Remember that everybody can be bought.

Jimmy Breslin
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 against the national interest.

Jimmy Breslin
Jimmy Breslin

Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility.

Jimmy Breslin
Jimmy Breslin

The trouble with Trump's father was that he was a totally naive man. He had no idea that you could buy the whole news reporting business in New York City with a return phone call.

Jimmy Breslin
Jimmy Breslin

The only people I don't answer are bill collectors.

Jimmy Breslin
Jimmy Breslin

I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw.

Jimmy Breslin
Jimmy Breslin

I don't know any other columnists, and I don't know what they do. I work the single! And nobody does what I do, anyway.

Jimmy Breslin
Jimmy Breslin

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.

Jimmy Breslin
Jimmy Breslin

Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.

Jimmy Breslin
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
Jimmy Breslin

Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood.