Mike Royko Quotes

Mike Royko — American Writer born on September 19, 1932, died on April 29, 1997

Michael "Mike" Royko was a Chicago newspaper columnist, winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. Over his 30-year career, he wrote over 7,500 daily columns for three newspapers, the Chicago Daily News, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chicago Tribune... (wikipedia)

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

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

There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values.' And that is to get right down to the root cause of the problem.

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.

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 Quotes

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