Quotes by George C. Wallace

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.
– George C. Wallace
Being governor don't mean a thing anymore in this country. We're nothing. Just high-paid ornaments is all. I'm thinking of running for president myself.
– George C. Wallace
I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.
– George C. Wallace
I'm the lamest lame duck there could be.
– George C. Wallace
I've read about foreign policy and studied - I know the number of continents.
– George C. Wallace
I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.
– George C. Wallace
If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of.
– George C. Wallace
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.
– George C. Wallace
Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.
– George C. Wallace
Sure, I look like a white man. But my heart is as black as anyone's here.
– George C. Wallace
The doves in this country and some of the media are the cause of fifty-some-odd-thousand Americans being killed and all that money being spent, and all that inflation.
– George C. Wallace
There's some people who've gone over the state and said, Well, George Wallace has talked too strong about segregation. Now let me ask you this: how in the name of common sense can you be too strong about it? You're either for it or you're against it. There's not any middle ground as I know of.
– George C. Wallace
They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia.
– George C. Wallace
Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?
– George C. Wallace