Michael Hogan Quotes & Sayings

Men do not die on mornings like this:
whatever happens then happens in their name,
like the lives of obscure saints, who exist only in folk memory. — Michael Hogan

Not only does free trade have nothing to do with democracy, but in most cases throughout history the two have been inimical. Free trade prospered only at the expense of democracy and the freedom of the majority. — Michael Hogan

In the mid-'60s, I quit school and wandered across the country, hitchhiked back and forth a few times, and ended up in hippie times, in the street in Toronto, in Yorkville. — Michael Hogan

We make our own rules and lose by them. — Michael Hogan

Most stories are not about people
but about life, an addiction like the rest of them
that destroys you even as you love it,
but you love it anyway and can never get enough. — Michael Hogan

We fit the pieces of our life together in a pattern,
but there is no image on the puzzlebox to guide us. — Michael Hogan

When words fail, the hammer drops,
living can never be its own excuse. — Michael Hogan

Doors open to you every time you get a different role. So, yeah, the research is my passion; that's why I keep doing it. — Michael Hogan

a good friendship euchres the universe. — Michael Hogan

When you totally commit yourself to a project and do your work quietly and well, unknown friends will find you and angels will surround you. — Michael Hogan

We give more economic aid to multinational corporations to increase their profits than we do to all the countries in the world combined. — Michael Hogan

All the wrong questions have been asked and the correct answers are not true. — Michael Hogan

Sometimes you go so far in your life,
you can't get back
though you know it's not really your life. — Michael Hogan

Being a regular in a television series, for me - if I wanted to be a cop, I woulda went to cop school. If I wanted to be a doctor, I would've gone to medical school. You get trapped in your normal episodic television shows, basically doing the same thing. — Michael Hogan

Anyone who pretends to "understand" Latin America is a fool. — Michael Hogan

The problem with the politicians of both parties in the US is that neither of them have a real agenda except to feather their own nests. They both have their hands deep in corporate pockets. All the rest is sleight of hand and distraction to keep the public occupied with trivia, divided against each other, and thinking their vote matters. — Michael Hogan

Nothing you did made sense
and nothing you'll ever do. — Michael Hogan

Sometimes we know people who are
too wonderful for words. I am not one of them.
Or you, for that matter, as you well know. — Michael Hogan

You know, I'm an old man, and there's always parts for old bald guys. — Michael Hogan

The measure of a country's prosperity should not be how many poor people drive cars, but how many affluent people use public transportation. — Michael Hogan