John Gunther's Quotes

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.

What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time.

It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.

One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.

The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever.

Good teachers must inspire children to work hard - make projects and give them good marks even if genuine projects look crude and unprofessional.

Parents are the biggest culprit. In a bid to make their child score high marks, they are willing to indulge in practices that are unethical, like buying projects. They do not realise that such attempts will not make their child brighter or think over ideas.