Joseph Sobran Quotes
It would be a healthy exercise for every politician to look in the mirror every morning and remind himself that he holds office only because, in a two-man race against another mediocrity, a modest majority of those half-informed people who imagined that their votes mattered reckoned that he was the lesser evil. And they weren't too sure about that.
Sobran, Joseph. Universal Press Syndicate.
He had been accused of heading a country that denied freedom of the press. However, there was much material in the press that was very critical and disrespectful of the President and the government. This reality was an effective defense. It turned out that there were some partisan extremists in a society rife with historical tribal conflict who had intimidated a few journalists and killed another. It was not the President or his government officials or police.
Michael Joseph Sobran Jr. was an American journalist. He wrote for the National Review magazine and was a syndicated columnist. Pat Buchanan called Sobran "perhaps the finest columnist of our generation".
