George C. Wallace quotes
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“Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?”
-- George C. WallaceSource : "Absurdities, Scandals & Stupidities in Politics". Book by Hakeem Shittu and Callie Query, p. 106, 2006.
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“I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”
-- George C. WallaceSource : First Inaugural Speech as Governor of Alabama, January 1963.
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“Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever!”
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“They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia.”
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“I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.”
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“If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of.”
-- George C. WallaceSource : Speech shown in "American Experience" series on PBS, 2000.
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“I was wrong. Those days are over and they ought to be over.”
-- George C. WallaceSource : Speech in 1979. "Government in America: People, Politics, and Policy" by George C. Edwards, Pearson Education, p. 80, 2009.
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“Im the lamest lame duck there could be.”
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“I was out-niggered, and I will never be out-niggered again.”
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“After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.”
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“Look at all the buses now that want exact change, exact change. I figure if I give them exact change, they should take me exactly where I want to go.”
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“Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.”
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