Quote #5

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

More from Earl Long

  1. 'Someday Louisiana is going to get good government. And they ain't gonna like it.'
  2. 'If you ever want to hide something from (Louisiana attorney general) Jack Gremillion, put it in a law book.'
  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. 'I'm not nuts. If I'm nuts, I've been nuts my whole life.'
  5. 'I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.'
  6. '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…

All Earl Long quotes