John Gunther Quotes

Old And New Kiss Everywhere In Africa

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.

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.

One Travels Like A Golf Ball, Hopping From Green To Green.

There Are No Generalizations In American Politics That Vested Selfishness Cannot Cut Through.

[chicago] Is The Greatest And Most Typically American Of All Cities. New York Is Bigger And More Spectacular And Can Outmatch It In Other Superlatives, But It Is A "world" City, More European In Some Respects Than American.

Yemen Produces Coffee, Egypt Cotton, Iraq Dates, Palestine Oranges, And Syria Trouble.

Count Hermann Keyserling Once Said Truly That The Greatest American Superstition Was The Belief In Facts.

Arkansas Is A Curious And Interesting Community ... It Is Probably The Most Untouched And Unawakened Of All American States.

Moscow Is The City Where If Marilyn Monroe Should Walk Down The Street With Nothing On But Shoes, People Would Stare At Her Feet First.

France Is The Most Civilized Country In The World And Doesn’t Care Who Knows It.

He Was Trying To Save Both His Faces.