Pete Hamill : (4)

" The Tammany guys, many of them were corrupt. They were still around when I was a boy. You knew the Tammany guys’ name. " - Pete Hamill

" My father lost his leg in 1927 playing soccer. A kick broke his leg; gangrene set in. They sawed it off. So he didn’t get what a lot of Irish immigrants got, which was a job on the Waterfront – he didn’t get that. " - Pete Hamill

" The blogosphere might be very useful as propaganda or as therapy. But it’s not journalism. " - Pete Hamill

" There are human beings who will be helped in understanding our times through the diaries of Edward Robb Ellis. " - Pete Hamill