Any candidate who'd offered a real possibility of an alternative to Nixon - someone with a different concept of the presidency - could have challenged him and come very close to beating him.
Hunter S. ThompsonThe behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.
Hunter S. ThompsonQuacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?
Hunter S. ThompsonI felt a strange tightness coming over me, and I reacted instinctively โ for the first time in a long, long while โ by slipping my notebook into my belt and reaching down to take off my watch. The first thing to go in a street fight is your watch, and once youโve lost a few, you develop a certain instinct that lets you know when itโs time to get the thing off your wrist and into a safe pocket.
Hunter S. Thompson