5 Quotes & Sayings By Mike Royko

Mike Royko was a Chicago-based journalist who wrote for The Chicago Sun-Times from 1954 to 1987. He won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1970. In the mid-1960s, he wrote The Illinois Way about the corruption and political life of Chicago. His work often focused on politics, especially Richard J Read more

Daley's machine politics. He wrote a syndicated column that was distributed by United Press International.

Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always...
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Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck is really going on. Mike Royko
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If the regular pay was important to him, the opportunity to learn was of even greater long-range significance. Mike Royko
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Go that way, past the viaduct, and the wops will jump you, or chase you into Jew town... Polacks would stomp on you... Micks will shower you with Irish confetti from the brickyards. Mike Royko
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It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway', but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies. Mike Royko