I'd rather violate every one of the damn conventions and see my bills passed, than sit back in my office, all nice and proper, and watch 'em die.

Sure we'll have Fascism here, but it will come as an anti-Fascism movement.

I'm for the poor man - all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' - that's my slogan.

One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it.

The only difference I ever found between the Democratic leadership and the Republican leadership is that one of them is skinning you from the ankle up and the other, from the ear down.

NRA - Nuts Running America.

If Fascism comes to America it would be on a program of Americanism.

Don't liken me to that [SOB]. Anybody that lets his public policies be mixed up with religious prejudice is a plain [GD] fool.

All I care is what the boys at the forks of the creek think of me.

I'm a dyed-in-the-wool party man. I don't know just what party I am in right now, but I am for the party.

Now, just a word about the poor Negroes... They're here. They've got to be cared for... The poor Negroes have got to live, too.

Some people are anchored to this world by their feet, others by their fears.

Stand fast in the grace of God.

Every man needs a shadow to reveal his light, to always be that close, ever present, bonded forever in astral allegiance.

Goodbyes are sad, but they are temporary, because as hellos ends with goodbyes, so will goodbyes start with hellos.

One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

I figured that to be a writer I would need to have been born in the nineteenth century, be British, or have three names. So I turned my sights elsewhere . . . to acting.

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature.

Compassion is the enemy. Mercy defeats us