Samuel Johnson Quotes
I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
He was referring to writer and filmmaker Michael Moore who was one of the President’s most vocal and caustic critics. See {615194} for an example.
Samuel Johnson, often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. Religiously, he was a devout Anglican, and politically a committed Tory. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Johnson as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". He is the subject of James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, described by Walter Jackson Bate as "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature".