Best 17 quotes of Fletcher Knebel on MyQuotes

A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.

Finally it has penetrated my thick skull. This life-this moment-is no dress rehearsal. This is it.

Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.

Hollywood, to hear some writers tell it, is the place where they take an author's steak tartare and make cheeseburger out of it. Upon seeing the film, they say, the author promptly cuts his throat, bleeding to death in a pool of money.

It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Never give up. For fifty years they said the horse was through. Now look at him - a status symbol.

No other city in the U.S. can divest the visitor of so much money with so little enthusiasm. In Dallas, they take away with gusto; in New Orleans, with a bow; in San Francisco, with a wink and a grin. In New York, you're lucky if you get a grunt.

Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln.

To start with, there's the alien accent. "Tree" is the number between two and four. "Jeintz" is the name of the New York professional football team. A "fit" is a bottle measuring seven ounces less than a quart. This exotic tongue has no relationship to any of the approved languages at the United Nations, and is only slightly less difficult to master than Urdu.

Freedom of the press is one thing, but unbridled license to degrade and ridicule officials who devote their lives to this country is something else again.

He's trying to belittle the presidency and drag it down to his own smart-aleck level.

Nobody in this country can tell a president of the United States that his mind is sick.

The General’s preoccupation with electronic gadgetry irked Randall. The world had become a wondrous fabric of instant communication, linking millions of people in the same old abundance of problems and poverty of solutions.

The mental business is almost impossible to handle at the apex of government

You double-crossed me, MacVeagh,” continued Hollenbach, his speech... You've joined the plot to discredit me and disgrace the administration—for what exact purposes, I don't know yet.