Why We Don't Suck Quotes

“Youth is NOT wasted on the young. That's why they can party all night and still find their cell phones in the morning.”
― Denis Leary, Why We Don't Suck

“We’re better than dueling partisan didactics harping their paid way through daily CNN shoutfests. We’re better than Fox TV’s The Five, where four Republicans maul a Democrat every night in a cloud of Trumpian agitprop. We should be able to rise above such grade-school-playground bully pulpit bullshit. We could use the digiverse to unify.”
― Denis Leary, Why We Don't Suck: And How All of Us Need to Stop Being Such Partisan Little Bitches

“Because in the end, that's the only legacy anyone leaves behind: family. How you treated and loved your significant other bears a spiritual witness even after you've departed. And if you have children, how they are raised speaks an enduring volume about your moral backbone and beliefs. As do your closest friends and relatives. Charity also counts: To whom much is given, much is expected in return. I picked up that nugget from my parents.”
― Denis Leary, Why We Don't Suck

“Let’s face it, we’ve always been great. Complicated, yes. Imperfect? You bet your ass. Btu the thing that makes us great is our striving to become perfect. Always moving forward to try to solve our problems and right our wrongs.”
― Denis Leary, Why We Don't Suck

“Like Tom Hagen said: “This is business, Sonny. Not personal.” An approach Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill were savvy enough to take back in the 1980s. Tip was the Democratic Speaker of the House and not afraid to criticize the Republican president. Reagan did the same on a daily basis to his Democratic rival. Until six o’clock in the evening. Then they’d sit down for a beer or call each other on the phone and figure out what the most important piece of work was for each side that week—and they’d find enough common ground to pass legislation that made both parties happy.”
― Denis Leary, Why We Don't Suck: And How All of Us Need to Stop Being Such Partisan Little Bitches

“His skin was so thin you could practically see his Big Mac brain stem vowing revenge. It was a joy to observe. Like a scientific experiment in pomposity.”
― Denis Leary, Why We Don't Suck: And How All of Us Need to Stop Being Such Partisan Little Bitches