Top 37 Quotes by Richard Ben Cramer

About Richard Ben Cramer

These are some quotes by American author Richard Ben Cramer Journalist, who lived between June 12, 1950 and January 7, 2013.

I used to think that the image of the press in the 1940s - a bunch of guys in hats screaming on the courthouse steps - was all baloney. I used to say, 'I know reporters. We're not like that.' But we are.

Richard Ben Cramer

If you're following candidates in a campaign, you get on their plane, and what they're generally doing is they're dividing the cost of that charter flight by the number of reporters they're carrying aboard. In effect, the press is buying them that campaign flight.

Richard Ben Cramer

You can say you're going to take a vacation, and you can even take the time, but you might as well not, because the book is still sitting in your head.

You can say you're going to take a vacation, and you can even take the time, but you might as well not, because the book is still sitting in your head.

Richard Ben Cramer

He was J. DiMaggio, and that was his business. He always was served and hosted - he was America's guest. And I really I don't think we would have the athletes that we have today and the social system in which they live without DiMaggio and what he did.

Richard Ben Cramer

DiMaggio was never a rube. He was very smart and very urban. Coming out of the Great Depression, he was the immigrant boy who made it big. Coming back from World War II, he had all the wealth and power that New York aspired to. When New York saw itself as the center of the world, he was its paragon of class.

Richard Ben Cramer

He's made a business out of being Joe DiMaggio. To remain Joe DiMaggio, you better not have too much known. He's right. The closer you get, the more explosively bad stuff you find.

He's made a business out of being Joe DiMaggio. To remain Joe DiMaggio, you better not have too much known. He's right. The closer you get, the more explosively bad stuff you find.

Richard Ben Cramer

There is not often much policy discussion with the Bushes. There isn't much introspection. Several generations of Bush men could pass by in which the great questions of humankind will go undiscussed.

There is not often much policy discussion with the Bushes. There isn't much introspection. Several generations of Bush men could pass by in which the great questions of humankind will go undiscussed.

Richard Ben Cramer

If God had given me a fastball, you're goddamn right I wouldn't have been a writer. But Koufax got all the Jewish fastballs.

If God had given me a fastball, you're goddamn right I wouldn't have been a writer. But Koufax got all the Jewish fastballs.

Richard Ben Cramer

This book-promotion stuff is like a political campaign. You work your butt off, and at the end of the day, you can't tell if it's made a damned bit of difference.

This book-promotion stuff is like a political campaign. You work your butt off, and at the end of the day, you can't tell if it's made a damned bit of difference.

Richard Ben Cramer

At some point... Israel ground away, or gave away, her birthright of loyalty from the West.

At some point... Israel ground away, or gave away, her birthright of loyalty from the West.

Richard Ben Cramer

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