A biography for William O'Neillhasn’t been written yet.
“The 1930s had been a time of tremendous economic distress. And the unemployment rate was enormously high by any historic standard.”
“I've never professed to be an intellectual. I don't try to be.”
“I've had the school of hard knocks, and I've worked my way up to be the governor of this great state of Connecticut.”
“Meeting all walks of life, it broadened your horizons, let's say that.”
“It's kind of a terrible irony, in a way, that the solution to America's problems was World War II.”