The Lawrence Sanders Thriller Collection Volume Two Quotes

“Let me repeat,” he says stonily, “so there can be no possibility of your misunderstanding the course I intend to pursue. I have spent my entire career with firm and loyal adherence to the platforms and beliefs of the political party I judge best suited to govern this great nation. Now that organization is being threatened by an influx of half-witted rabble, riffraff, and come-to-Jesus nuts. I will not accept that without a fight. I will not allow the party to which I have pledged my life, my fortune, and my sacred honor to become a haven for slum-dwellers, white trash, and the dregs of society who lack the intelligence, pedigree, and noble courage to steer the ship of state safely through the shoals of a complex and frequently hostile world.”
― Lawrence Sanders, The Lawrence Sanders Thriller Collection Volume Two: The Tomorrow File, The Passion of Molly T., and Capital Crimes

“After I squirmed into the snakepit of national politics, I realized that a ruler must equate the unpredictable with the unreliable. The future was too important to leave to whim.”
― Lawrence Sanders, The Lawrence Sanders Thriller Collection Volume Two: The Tomorrow File, The Passion of Molly T., and Capital Crimes