Our Gang Quotes

“We've sifted through the eight thousand, don't worry about that. And this is the one. This is the murder weapon, no doubt about it."

Then the President has been murdered?"

I cant tell you that right now. But I can assure you that if there has been a murder, this is what did it.”
― Philip Roth, Our Gang

“Conflicting stories continue to circulate concerning the death of the President. A second White House announcement has now called attention to the President's schedule for the day, pointing out that no mention is made there of dying. Also released was the President's schedule for tomorrow, wherein there also appears to be no plan on the part of the President or his advisers for him to die. "I think it would be best," said the White House Bilge Secretary, "in the light of these schcedules, to wait for a statement, one way or another, from the President himself.”
― Philip Roth, Our Gang

“We return you to the Vice President, who is now addressing the National Sword Swallowers Association."

"-the psychotics, the sob sisters, the skin merchants, the saboteurs, the self-styled Sapphos, the self-styled Swinburners, the swine, the satyrs, the schizos, the sodomists, the sissies, the screamers, the screwy, the scum, the self-congratulatory self-congratulators, the sensationalists, the snakes in the grass, the sex fiends, the shiftless, the shines, the shaggy, the sickly, the syphilitic-”
― Philip Roth, Our Gang

“Mi permetto di dissentire. Non voglio influenzare il voto, però questo lo voglio dire: non sottovalutiamo l'immaginazione del popolo americano. Potrà sembrarvi patriottismo vecchio stampo, di quello che non va più di moda, ma io ho la massima fiducia nell'immaginazione del popolo americano, e l'ho sempre avuta. Penso sul serio che al popolo americano si possa fare credere qualunque cosa. Dopotutto ogni popolo ha le sue fantasie, paure e superstizioni, come tutti i popoli, e non se ne cava niente prendendo semplicemente in considerazione i problemi veri e fingendo che gli altri non esistano soltanto perchè sono immaginari.”
― Philip Roth, Our Gang

“I don't believe lies are something to stand on. I believe lies are something to build on.”
― Philip Roth, Our Gang