Jack Gould Quotations

I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half.

They've just gone berserk. It's in the public interest to know where these large amounts of money are coming from.

Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability. His specialty is rhythm songs which he renders in an undistinguished whine; his phrasing, if it can be called that, consists of the stereotyped variations that go with a beginner's aria in a bathroom. For the ear, he is an unutterable bore.

One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath.

It's like being called up in the draft. The peculiar joy of hemorrhaging without bleeding starts when the evil little red light glows on the monstrous camera.

Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability.

Why not pick up the new full-length motion picture at the corner drugstore and then run it through one's home TV receiver?

There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.

Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.

Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability . . . For the ear he is an unutterable bore, not nearly so talented as Frank Sinatra back in the latter's rather hysterical days at the Paramount Theater.

This idea that privilege comes with position is something that's terribly antiquated and doesn't belong in a democracy. These are elected officials who chose to serve the public, and the idea of serving the public doesn't include taking gifts from someone who obviously wants something in return.