John > John's Quotes

“Battle is a hard business, sister. Soft training will make for soft soldiers, who will in turn become soft corpses.”
― Anthony Ryan, Blood Song

“Going to the game seemed like being on the inside of the most important secret in the world.”
― Stuart Stevens, The Last Season: A Father, a Son, and a Lifetime of College Football

“Nothin’ plugs a man’s ears like money.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“We want our movies instantly. We order our groceries at lunchtime and expect them to arrive in time for dinner. We punch up cars to deliver us to our whims. The largest companies in America, from Amazon to Uber to Facebook, want to fill the air with buzzing drones dropping from the skies whatever you want and more of it. Manna is now always on the delivery menu.”
― John Dickerson, The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency

“We have gone from holding the door out of courtesy to standing before it out of obliviousness.”
― John Dickerson

“That a [presidential] candidate would do whatever it took to get power is now proof that a candidate is fit for the job—a perfect reversal of the founders' intent.”
― John Dickerson, The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency