huey long

“ 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. ”

“ We do not propose to say that there be no rich men. We do not ask for wealth. We only propose that when one man more than he and his children...can spend for or use in their lifetimes, that then we shall say that such person has his share. ”

“ You will find that you cannot do without politicians. They are a necessary evil in this day and time... ”

“ My voice will be the same as it has been. Patronage will not change it. Fear will not change it. Persecution will not change it. It cannot be changed while people suffer. The only way it can be changed is to make the lives of these people decent and respectable. No one will ever hear political opposition out of me when it is done. ”

“ Before this miserable system of wreckage has destroyed the life germ of respect and culture in American people, let us save what was here, merely by having none too poor and none too rich. ”

“ Sure, we have fascism in America but it'll come disguised as hundred percent Americanism. ”

“ The trouble is, Roosevelt hasn't taken all of my ideas; just part of them. I'm about one hundred yards ahead of him. We're on the same road, but I'm here and he's there. ”

“ 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. ”

“ I would describe a demagogue as a politician who don't keep his promises. ”