"It is Nixon himself who represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character that almost every country in the world has le...












Politics is the Art of Controlling Your Enviroment.

More Hunter S. Thompson quotes
"I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively i...
"A word to the wise is infuriating.
"Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in h...
"KNOW YOUR DOPE FIEND. YOUR LIFE MAY DEPEND ON IT! You will not be able to see his eyes because of the Tea-Shades, but his knuckles will be white from ...
"Kill the body and the head will die.
"So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exc...
"Whatever else the Florida primary might or might not have proved, it put a definite kink in the Media Theory of politics. It may be true, despite what...
"...if that Watergate case ever gets into court, he might get very nervous.
"How many more of these stinking, double-downer sideshows will we have to go through before we can get ourselves straight enough to put together some k...
"A totally befuddled voter may look at a Vote for McGovern sign and do just that.
"Hubert Humphrey is a treacherous, gutless old ward-heeler who should be put in a goddamn bottle and sent out with the Japanese current.
"Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
"McGovern made some stupid mistakes, but in context they seem almost frivolous compared to the things Richard Nixon does every day of his life, on purp...
"To crank up a noisy bad stance out in a place like San Francisco and start yelling about “getting things done in Washington” is like sitting far back ...