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“But you are impressive—talking out of your ass while you’re sitting on it.”
Caitlin whisked eggs, milk, cinnamon, and vanilla extract in a
‘He’s got ideals but no illusions.’”
Jack had been sick forever and had received the last rites four times.
we can’t achieve the possible unless we attempt the impossible, and to do that requires a leader with—” “Charismatic authority,”
There is too much poverty here, and we have to get involved with poor nations everywhere—it’s how to beat back the Communists.
why I wanted you fucking idiots to stay off that committee and leave the mobsters alone.”
Assassinations?
could insist you name him.” “And I could quit.”
Love it!
believe in yourself. And wait for the man who accepts you with your clothes on.”
‘The world isn’t kind, so friends must be.’
First you mourn, Jack thought. Then you suffer.
New Hampshire primary, the election season’s first contest. Before
he glanced at Oatsie with the disdain that Brits had reserved for Americans ever since the Sons of Liberty had dumped their tea into Boston Harbor.
after picking up a Corvair
My car!
‘Ruby carries cash out of Cuba to the US for the mob.’”
his campaign was delivering envelopes of cash to the county bosses,
Nothing makes somebody talk like silence.
wisest crack: It’s not the pope I’m afraid of, it’s the pop. Still, Joe and Rose Kennedy
everyone had a cross to bear, and Jack believed it should be borne with your mouth shut.
“You ask questions like a cop.” “How’s that?” With more than a hint of impatience, Trafficante said, “Like you know the answers.”
Grief didn’t go away—it became memories.
“A penny for your thoughts.” “You’d be overpaying.”
everyone was half as smart as they thought,
Jack’s rule was that if you don’t know what
the fuck to do, do something.
