Quotes by Cooke, Alistair

A professional; is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't fe >>

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fel >>

Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christ >>

Quotations about President

From now on, I think it is safe to predict, neither the Democratic nor >>

Wilson adventured for the whole of the human race. Not as a servant, b >>

In America, the President reigns for four years, and journalism govern >>

All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumble and begin to poke around for rumors of another Messiah.

Cooke, Alistair