Roy Cohn Quotes
I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves.
Cohn, Roy, and Sidney Zion. The Autobiography of Roy Cohn. Lyle Stuart, 1988.
There were very few politicians who would dare to even unfavorably mention the KKK. Long however took them on directly.
Following the sinking of the battleship Maine in Cuba in 1898, Hearst, then a newspaper publisher, dispatched artist Frederic Remington to Cuba to paint war scenes for Hearst's newspapers. Remington could not find any and so cabled Hearst. This was Hearst’s famous reply. Hearst's newspapers then all called for war, and Congress shortly thereafter declared such,
Roy Marcus Cohn was an American lawyer who came to prominence for his role as Senator Joseph McCarthy's chief counsel during the Army–McCarthy hearings in 1954, when he assisted McCarthy's investigations of suspected communists. Modern historians view his approach during those hearings as dependent on demagogic, reckless and unsubstantiated accusations against political opponents. In the late 1970s and during the 1980s, he became a prominent political fixer in New York City. He represented and mentored the real estate developer and later President of the United States Donald Trump during his early business career.