Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER: | 1415 |
AUTHOR: | Jimmy Breslin (1929) |
QUOTATION: | All political power is primarily an illusion…. Illusion. Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished mirrors, first a thin veil of blue smoke, then a thick cloud that suddenly dissolves into wisps of blue smoke, the mirrors catching it all, bouncing it back and forth. |
ATTRIBUTION: | The phrase is usually quoted as blue smoke and mirrors. |
SUBJECTS: | Politics |