Mike Royko Quotes

• 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.

  Mike Royko

  Helping Others, Hands, Giving

  Mike Royko (2014). “Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997”, p.2954, Agate Digital

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• Mi política ha sido considerar Internet no como una "autopista de la información", sino como un manicomio electrónico lleno de locos parlanchines.

  Mike Royko

  Views, Bipolar, Lunatic Asylums

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• A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it's gonna spill.

  Mike Royko

  Glasses, Fans, Half

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• 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 is really going on.

  Mike Royko

  Optimistic, Ideas, Cheerful

  Mike Royko (2014). “Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997”, p.817, Agate Digital

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• Las leyes estrictas sobre armas son tan efectivas como las leyes estrictas sobre drogas... Me duele decirlo, pero parece que la NRA tiene razón: Las ciudades y estados que tienen las leyes de armas más estrictas son los que más asesinatos y caos cometen.

  Mike Royko

  Pain, Gun, Law

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• If God dislikes gays so much, how come he picked Michelangelo, a known homosexual, to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling while assigning Anita Bryant to go on television and push orange juice?

  Mike Royko

  Gay, Orange, Ceilings

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• For some people, being free means being free to keep their feet on someone else's chest.

  Mike Royko

  Mean, Feet, People

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• ¿Por qué crees que la lotería es tan popular? ¿Crees que alguien jugaría si el súper premio fuera un trabajo en el turno de noche en una planta empacadora de carne? La gente juega para que si ganan puedan ser ricos y ociosos. Como te dije hace años: si el trabajo es tan bueno, ¿cómo es que tienen que pagarnos por hacerlo?

  Mike Royko

  Jobs, Night, Thinking

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• Newspapers, magazines and other publications have the constitutional right to be offensive, even disgusting. As evidence of that, just watch this space regularly.

  Mike Royko

  America, Space, Watches

  Mike Royko (2014). “Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997”, p.2366, Agate Digital

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• When I conducted a beer-rating session last year, I wrote that most American beers taste as if they were brewed through a horse. That offended many people in the American beer industry, as well as patriots who thought I was being subversive in praising foreign beers. I have just read a little-known study of American beers. So I must apologize to the horse. At least with a horse, we'd know what we're getting.

  Mike Royko

  Horse, Beer, Years

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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.

  Mike Royko

  Cities, Criminals, Rehabilitation

  Mike Royko (2014). “Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997”, p.313, Agate Digital

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• Dios inclinó el país y todas las frutas y nueces rodaron hacia el oeste.

  Mike Royko

  Country, Nuts, West

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• No es natural que la gente corra por las calles de la ciudad, a menos que sean ladrones o víctimas. A la gente le pone nerviosa ver a alguien corriendo. Yo sé que cuando veo a alguien correr por mi calle, mi instinto me dice que deje que el perro vaya tras él.

  Mike Royko

  Running, Dog, Cities

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

  Mike Royko

  Belief, Rich, Poor

  Mike Royko (1982). “Sez Who? Sez Me”, Dutton Adult

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• Anyone who gives a surgeon six thousand dollars for breast augmentation should give some thought to investing a little more in brain augmentation.

  Mike Royko

  Giving, Brain, Dollars

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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.

  Mike Royko

  Movie, Couple, Philosophy

  Mike Royko, Lois Wille (2000). “One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko”, p.120, University of Chicago Press

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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 of millions of poor people out there who still ain't got indoor plumbing, but that don't mean there's something great about an outhouse. Soccer is boring. I've never seen a more boring sport.

  Mike Royko

  Fútbol, Deportes, Béisbol

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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.

  Mike Royko

  Cat, Choices, Cooking

  Mike Royko (2001). “For the Love of Mike: More of the Best of Mike Royko”, p.13, University of Chicago Press

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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.

  Mike Royko

  Goal, Littles, Conservative

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• Odiar a los Yankees es tan americano como la tarta de pizza, las madres solteras y hacer trampas en el impuesto sobre la renta.

  Mike Royko

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Baseball

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• 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 his actions, but Daley came out...even more popular than before because bust their heads was the mood of the land and Daley had swung the biggest club.

  Mike Royko

  Party, Land, America

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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.

  Mike Royko

  Political, Hollywood, Duty

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

  Mike Royko

  Sports, Hero, Jordan

  Mike Royko (2014). “Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997”, p.2523, Agate Digital

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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.

  Mike Royko

  Thinking, Views, Years

  "Chicago's Mike Royko, sharp-witted columnist, dies" by Lisa Price, www.cnn.com. April 29, 1997.

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• Hollywood tiene razón. Una película buena y potente puede tener un impacto social más poderoso que todos y cada uno de los discursos políticos o los editoriales y columnas de los periódicos.

  Mike Royko

  Strong, Powerful, Impact

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