George Wallace

Tell the people... please, tell the people of Alabama that I love them. Tell them I'm suffering a lot, but I love them. ”

I don't expect people to forget my brash words or deeds. But I ask that they try to remember the actions that I took that were designed to help them. ”

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. ”

It's what the people wanted at the time, but the country could not be half-segregated and half-integrated, just as it could not be half-slave and half-free back in the 1800s. ”

I've never said that you should have segregation of the school system or any other. ”

We must not be misled by left-wing incompetent news media that, day after day, feed us a diet of fantasy telling us we are bigots, racists and hate-mongers. ”

I did nothing worse than Lyndon Johnson. He was for segregation when he thought he had to be. I was for segregation, and I was wrong. The media has rehabilitated Johnson; why won't it rehabilitate me? ”

Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever! ”

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. ”