Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1523
AUTHOR:
Harry S. Truman (1884–1972)
QUOTATION:
Whenever the press quits abusing me I know I’m in the wrong pew. I don’t mind it because when they throw bricks at me—I’m a pretty good shot myself and I usually throw ’em back at ’em.
ATTRIBUTION:
HARRY S. TRUMAN, speech at a dinner in his honor, Washington, D.C., February 22, 1958.—Text as recorded by The New York Times, February 23, 1958, p. 46.
