“We disagree so violently on almost everything that it's a real pleasure to drink with him. If nothing else, he's absolutely honest in his lunacy”

— Hunter S. Thompson , book Fear and Loathing in America

and I've found, during my admittedly limited experience in political reporting, that power & honesty very rarely coincide.
Comments on Pat Buchanan in a letter to Garry Wills (17 October 1973); published in Fear and Loathing in America (2000) ISBN 0747549648
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