Author Profile
Mike Barnicle
1943 • American • Journalist
45
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 45 quotesThe refurbishing and rebuilding of Fenway Park since 2001 has created a new urban neighborhood in Boston.— Mike Barnicle
Very few people live in the same house they move into when they're married or the same neighborhood when they're married. Very few people certainly live in the neighborhood they grew up in.— Mike Barnicle
Fear is hugely contagious. Used skillfully by politicians looking to manipulate voters, it can become toxic and capable of infecting more than just a few.— Mike Barnicle
In Washington, politicians worry about their 'base.' About polls. About ideology. About raising money. About re-election. They measure their future in two- or six-year increments.— Mike Barnicle
Political people give speeches and espouse positions declaring that America is the best and strongest nation in the world.— Mike Barnicle
Politicians in Washington work in a small, sheltered world where they lurch from crisis to crisis that they create, nurture and use as ideological triggers in their selfish pursuit of re-election.— Mike Barnicle
We live in a culture where everyone's opinion, view, and assessment of situations and people spill across social media, a lot of it anonymously, much of it shaped by mindless meanness and ignorance.— Mike Barnicle
Clearly, the Iranians are well aware that Teheran would be turned into a field of glass and sand if they ever stepped toward open war with Israel or Saudi Arabia.— Mike Barnicle
The world is an increasingly dangerous, troubled place. There are nations that seem to be ungovernable. Nations where violence and religious combat are as common as the sunrise.— Mike Barnicle
Like most of us, Joe Biden has had moments when he's led the league in mistakes or verbal gaffes. The difference is his were on a public stage where explanations are almost always made out by pundits to be excuses.— Mike Barnicle
Sixteen times a year, all thirty-two NFL teams give us what we're looking for: speed, skill, violence, fantasy league orgasms and a final score. No confusion. No doubt. No indecision. A winner and a loser.— Mike Barnicle
Race is the San Andreas Fault of our culture as well as our history. Its fissures are forever present and not that far beneath the surface of every day life. To deny that is to risk being labeled delusional.— Mike Barnicle
Cops, more than firefighters, EMTs or other public safety employees, almost always get the first glance of the human condition at the worst, most lethal moments; nobody calls a cop with good news.— Mike Barnicle
If you want proof of what the country is really all about, just walk through the National September 11 Memorial Museum. Here it is, in the faces of the victims, in the stories of bravery, in the souls and memory of the survivors, the next of kin.— Mike Barnicle
Most cops are not looking for understanding. They work in a world filled with a sense - real or imagined - of danger lurking around each corner and every hallway. Most cops are merely looking for respect.— Mike Barnicle
At times, Mario Cuomo seemed to have the humility of a Jesuit and the goals of an emperor.— Mike Barnicle
Reality is self-defined as the mob, any mob, writes its own history, never to be contradicted by the quiet statement of truth.— Mike Barnicle