Fear and Loathing in America by Hunter S. Thompson

'It is a very alluring vision, and nobody understands this better than Jimmy Carter. With President Carter's firm hand on the helm, the ship of state will once again sail a true and steady course, all the crooks and liars and thieves who somehow got control of the government during the turmoil of the Sixties will be driven out of the temple once and for all, and the White House will be so overflowing with honesty, decency, justice, love, and compassion that it might even glow in the dark. Fear and Loathing in America by Hunter S. 'The Jimmy Carter who has waltzed so triumphantly down the middle of the road through one Democratic primary after another is a cautious, conservative, and vaguely ethereal Baptist Sunday-school teacher who seems to promise, above all else, a return to normalcy, a resurrection of the national self-esteem, and a painless redemption from all the horrors and disillusion of Watergate. Image Credit: Michael Grecco/Getty Images

– Memo from the National Affairs Desk, June 16, 1994 Nobody trusted him - except maybe the Stalinist Chinese, and honest historians will remember him mainly as a rat who kept scrambling to get back on the ship.' He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency. Richard Nixon was an evil man–evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. 'Let there be no mistake in the history books …. – The Campaign Trail: Fear and Loathing in New Hampshire, March 2, 1972 'He hesitated for a moment, lost in thought, then he whacked me on the thigh and laughed: 'That's right, by God! The Miami boy!'' At one point in our conversation, when I was feeling a bit pressed for leverage, I mentioned a down & out pass - in the waning moments of a Super Bowl mismatch between Green Bay and Oakland - to an obscure, second-string Oakland receiver named Bill Miller that had stuck in my mind because of its pinpoint style & precision.

'Whatever else might be said about Nixon - and there is no doubt in my mind that he could pass for Human - he is a goddam stone fanatic on every facet of pro football.

Fear and Loathing in America by Hunter S. Thompson