Hugh Sidey famous quotes

04-17-2025

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
-- Hugh Sidey

#Funny #Happiness #Laughter
Carry laughter with you wherever you go.
-- Hugh Sidey

#Laughter
We are creating a political demolition derby, not a presidential debate. Those strange impulses in the American soul that have produced mud wrestling and The Gong Show seem to have claimed the national campaign.
-- Hugh Sidey

#Wrestling #Creating #Presidential
Reagan "has conducted an arms race on earth," boomed Mondale. A race generally implies two parties. The Soviets contributed a little bit to this problem, if Mondale had not noticed.
-- Hugh Sidey

#Party #Race #Two
When people travel here from across the country, they shed jealousies and politics and prejudices. The mighty climb down. The humble are elevated.
-- Hugh Sidey

#Country #Travel #Humble
In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be god.
-- Hugh Sidey

#Technology #World #May
We love the blather and boast, the charge and counter-charge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal.
-- Hugh Sidey

#Politics #Blather #Deals
Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.
-- Hugh Sidey

#Mean #People #World
A sense of humor is needed armor.
-- Hugh Sidey

#Armor #Sense Of Humor #Needed
They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray federal wilderness.
-- Hugh Sidey

#Brave #Silhouettes #Use
The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.
-- Hugh Sidey

#Presidential #Politics #Want
The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.
-- Hugh Sidey

#Problem #Easy #Stumps
A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.
-- Hugh Sidey

#Athlete #White #House
China's Premier Zhao Ziyang, for all of his billion constituents, seemed in the evening's lovely flow like a favorite uncle, smiling a little too much, wanting to be a bit American, talking about peace and pork chops.
-- Hugh Sidey

#Uncles #Talking #Lovely

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