Trust No One Quotes

“Are we interested in phrases or reality? For instance, there are those of us who are pro-life and those of us who are pro-choice. But none of us are proabortion.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Trust No One: A Thriller

“This president has consistently chosen image and hypocrisy over substance and effectiveness. There’s a clear choice at hand. We can beat our chests and lecture sanctimoniously about values, or we can talk about the root causes and find solutions that actually make a difference.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Trust No One: A Thriller

“They were the kind of white men they don’t make anymore, of a generation that missed rap music and fusion cuisine and Hong Kong action movies, a generation of white quarterbacks and whiter airline pilots, men who grew up friendly with Negroes and Oriental girls, the white of golf clubhouses and martinis, white-bucks white, white like Frank, the white of authority, the white of the Secret Service.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Trust No One: A Thriller

“he had the same old-boy skills—the deflection, the dismissive chuckle, the snide implication—that wore overloaded voters down into submission,”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Trust No One: A Thriller

“When people are scared, they cozy up to the incumbent.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Trust No One: A Thriller

“Everything’s gone to shit and politics.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Trust No One: A Thriller

“people don’t damn themselves in an instant, but with a thousand small decisions. One compromised choice leads to six more, and it goes from there. They decide they can cut a corner, or the ends justify the means, and then since they decided it once, they decide it again. All you can rely on is a man’s character. Not what he says or promises, but what he does. What you do is the measure of a man.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Trust No One: A Thriller

“A single bad decision can open a world of lamentable consequences.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Trust No One: A Thriller

“Okay, what’s it say?” He looked down at it, as if reading it for the first time. “‘Trust No One.’” I ate some more, my face burning. “My mom know that?” He nodded. “After Vietnam I was stationed in Okinawa. A couple of us went out and got these. Thought we were real hot shit. Had it all figured out. Idiots.” He shook his head. “I learned a lot of lessons the hard way. And this?” He tapped the tattoo. “As a life philosophy? It doesn’t serve. Now it’s just a reminder of how stupid I am most of the time.” “Still?” “You tell me.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Trust No One: A Thriller

“Who would you rather have? A leader who is unthinkingly loyal to opinions you disagree with? Or one who is insincere about opinions you share? A fool or a hypocrite? Too often, it seems, these are our only options. I don’t know the answer.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Trust No One