Top 37 Quotes by Richard Ben Cramer

I was with the mujaheddin, the rebels, and they were fighting against the Russians, and they would bring me along. Some of the adventures, when I look back at them now, it's a wonder I'm still around.

Losing the presidency is not like losing any other office. More than any other office, it's a vote about you as a whole human being.

I think the story of DiMaggio was alluring precisely for its impossibility.

When your friend causes you trouble, a president gets rid of those friends.

The average-guy routine works only so much, and then people begin to want something more.

Even if you had the wherewithal to embarrass a reporter, there was no mechanism to do it. And in most cases, you might as well save your breath because the reporter had no shame anyway.

It's very hard to imagine anybody being president when the stuff that's written about them is empty of who they are.

At every step in his life, DiMaggio was what New Yorkers wanted in a hero.

I'm just an old storyteller, and I always wanted to know, what the hell were these candidates really like?

I had every stress-related illness you can get.