George Wallace

“It's good that segregation is over.”

“I've never said that you should have segregation of the school system or any other.”

“They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia.”

“Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?”

“We must not be misled by left-wing incompetent news media that, day after day, feed us a diet of fantasy telling us we are bigots, racists and hate-mongers.”

“I am not about to be a party to anything having to do with the law that is going to destroy individual freedom and liberty in this country.”

“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.”

“I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.”

“Sure, I look like a white man. But my heart is as black as anyone's here.”

“As I have said before, that Federal Penal Code could never have been enacted into law if we had had a responsible press who was willing to tell the American people the truth about what it actually provides. Nor would we have had a bill had it not been for the United States Supreme Court.”

“I'm the lamest lame duck there could be.”

“Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever!”

“It seems that other parts of the world ought to be concerned about what we think of them instead of what they think of us. After all, we're feeding most of them, and whenever they start rejecting 25 cents of each dollar of foreign aid money that we send to them, then I'll be concerned about their attitude toward us.”

“It's what the people wanted at the time, but the country could not be half-segregated and half-integrated, just as it could not be half-slave and half-free back in the 1800s.”

“The court today, just as in 1776, is deaf to the voices of the people and their repeated entreaties: they have become arrogant, contemptuous, highhanded, and literal despots.”

“I did nothing worse than Lyndon Johnson. He was for segregation when he thought he had to be. I was for segregation, and I was wrong. The media has rehabilitated Johnson; why won't it rehabilitate me?”

“The average citizen in this county has more intelligence and sense in his little finger than the editor of 'The New York Times' has in his whole head.”

“I am having nothing to do with this so-called civil rights bill. The liberal left-wingers have passed it. Now let them employ some pinknik social engineers in Washington, D.C., to figure out what to do with it.”

“I am going to give the moral support of the presidency to the police and firemen.”

“Tell the people... please, tell the people of Alabama that I love them. Tell them I'm suffering a lot, but I love them.”