John Gunther Quotes

18 Sourced Quotes

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

John Gunther
The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.

John Gunther
I asked an Idaho patriot why potatoes were so big. Answer: We fertiliz'em with cornmeal and irrigate them with milk.

John Gunther
Moscow is the city where if Marilyn Monroe should walk down the street with nothing on but shoes, people would stare at her feet first.

John Gunther
Ohio: A giant carpet of agriculture studded by great cities.

John Gunther
The Russians are devout believers in an eye for an eye, or if possible two.

John Gunther
I heard it said that the architecture of Atlanta is rococola.

John Gunther
About the only thing that will make a Wyoming cattleman reach for his gun nowadays is to call him a farmer. A rancher, he wants it clearly understood, drinks only canned milk, never eats vegetables, and grows nothing but hay and whiskers.

John Gunther
Dallas is a baby Manhattan; Fort Worth is a cattle annex.

John Gunther
Idaho is torn, above all, between two other states, between the pull of Washington in the north, that of Utah in the south. Half of Idaho belongs to Spokane, I heard it said, and the other half to the Mormon church.

John Gunther
Nobody can possibly understand the Middle West who has not, for fun or profit, once looked through the catalogue of a great mail order company.

John Gunther
A shadow state gripped by psychoses because the world has passed it by.
Of Argentina

John Gunther
The city of the four C's—Climate, Cotton, Cattle, Copper.
Of El Paso, Texas

John Gunther
The Midwest is exactly what one would expect from a marriage between New England puritanism and rich soil.

John Gunther
The state is one of the most mountainous in the country; sometimes it is called the little Switzerland of America, and I once heard an irreverent local citizen call it the Afghanistan of the United States.
Of West Virginia

John Gunther
I know of no other metropolis with quite so impressive a record in the practical application of good citizenship to government.
Of Cleveland, Ohio

John Gunther
Iowa spells agriculture, and agriculture in this part of the world spells corn. This is the heart of agrarian America.

John Gunther
This state bows to nothing: the first legislative measure it ever passed was to adopt the laws of God…until there is time to frame better.
Of Vermont

John Gunther