Quotes by John Gunther

“All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.”

“What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time.”

“Its the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.”

“One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.”

“Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea”

“The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.”

“There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.”

“perhaps the entire harrowing episode would make his brain even finer, subtler, and more sensitive than it was.”

“Its just a great event that we participate in every year and its a great time.”

“I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a mans eyes than his own country”

What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know the second is to find out who will tell you.

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.

“What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.”