Roy M. Cohn Quotes

#1. Go after a man's weakness, and never, ever, threaten unless you're going to follow through, because if you don't, the next time you won't be taken seriously.

Roy Cohn

#2. I don't want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is.

Roy Cohn

#3. I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.

Roy Cohn

#4. I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves.

Roy Cohn

#5. My scare value is high. My arena is controversy. My tough front is my biggest asset.

Roy Cohn

#6. I fooled you, Ethel, I knew who you were all along. I can't believe you fell for that ma stuff. I just wanted to see if I could finally, finally make Ethel Rosenberg sing!

Tony Kushner

#7. Afterwards - because it turned out that there was to be an afterwards for Teddy - he resolved that he would try always to be kind. It was the best he could do. It was all that he could do. And it might be love, after all.

Kate Atkinson

#8. The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.

Bill Hicks

#9. I've been embracing gray hair since ... high school, and I don't think that anything's changed since then.

Taylor Hicks

#10. McCarthy generally, as an individual, was a liberal. He was, in economic philosophy and a lot of other things, extremeyl liberal.

Roy Cohn

#11. Places change you, Miss Timms, and deserts change us pale northerners so much, our own mothers wouldn't recognize us.

David Mitchell

#12. Of course I alienate myself from society. It's the only way I know of not being constantly reminded of all the ways I'm alienated from society.

Joshua Ferris