Earl Long Quotes

Earl Long delivers witty, sarcastic one-liners about communication and power, a fun read for those who like sharp humor.

10 quotes

  1. 'Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.'

  2. 'I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.'

  3. 'If you're with me in the first primary, you get jobs. If you're with me in the second primary, you get good government.'

  4. 'Someday Louisiana is going to get good government. And they ain't gonna like it.'

  5. 'Judge Kennon has perfectly good ears. He can stand in a courthouse in Opelousas and hear a dollar bill drop in Ville Platte.'

  6. 'If you ever want to hide something from (Louisiana attorney general) Jack Gremillion, put it in a law book.'

  7. 'I'm not nuts. If I'm nuts, I've been nuts my whole life.'

  8. But I'm in favor of every religion with the possible exception of snake-chunking. Anybody that so presumes on how he stands with Providence that he will let a snake bite him, I say he deserves what he's got coming to him.

  9. A four-hundred-dollar suit on him would look like socks on a rooster.

  10. The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.