Mike Royko

Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck is really going on. ↗

— Mike Royko

#humor #humor

I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose. ↗

— Mike Royko

#bad #bad guys #couple #find #guys

It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies. ↗

— Mike Royko

#asylum #babbling #been #electronic #filled

The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons. ↗

— Mike Royko

#appropriate #because #city #city hall #cons

Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich. ↗

— Mike Royko

#contrary #money #much #poor #popular

God tipped the country and all the fruits and nuts rolled west. ↗

— Mike Royko

#fruits #god #nuts #rolled #tipped

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax. ↗

— Mike Royko

#cheating #hating #income #income tax #mothers

Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns. ↗

— Mike Royko

#columns #editorials #good #hollywood #impact

Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience. ↗

— Mike Royko

#conscience #elevate #hollywood #likes #national

Reagan's approach will achieve one of the basic goals of the conservative: Things remain basically the same. The rich stay rich and the poor stay poor, or even a little poorer. ↗

— Mike Royko

#approach #basic #basically #conservative #even