It ain’t enough to get the breaks. You gotta know how to use ’em.

I would never rob your cradles to feed the dogs of war.

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

In a political fight, when you’ve got nothing in favour of your side, start a row in the opposition camp.

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.

Those of you who come in with me now will receive a big piece of the pie. Those of you who delay, and commit yourselves later, will receive a smaller piece of pie. Those of you who don’t come in at all will receive – Good Government!

I don’t know much about Hitler. Except that last thing, about the Jews. There has never been a country that put its heel down on the Jews that ever lived afterwards.

Every man a king – that’s my slogan.

They kept on hollering, and I simply had to put my foot down. I said, ‘I’m the governor and I say the ignorant in this state have to learn, blacks as well as whites.’ And they learned.

NRA – Nuts Running America.