Bert Lance

The press aren't willing to wait for whatever the truth is - the truth never catches up with the lie... Destroying people ought not to be a competitive business. ”

I guess it is ironical that I have a chance to say to Jesse Jackson, 'You need to be mature. You need to be positive. You need to be bigger than the folks who are trying to tear you down.' ”

Folks are serious about three things: Their religion, their family and, most of all, their money. ”

I've always believed that if you had a fellow who works 150 percent of the time, he's going to beat a fellow who works something less than that. ”