Quote #2

'I've got black friends, I employ black people. I don't employ them because they are black; I employ them because they're the best people who applied for the cotton-picking job.'

More from Evan Mecham

  1. 'Don't ever ask me for a true statement again!'
  2. 'Whenever I'm in my house or my office, I always have a radio on. It keeps the lasers out.'
  3. 'As I was a boy growing up, blacks themselves referred to their children as pickaninnies'
  4. 'Well, the N.B.A.. I guess they forget how many white people they get coming to watch them play.'
  5. 'Golly, I don't know. I don't know whether he speaks English or not'
  6. 'Kinda be careful, because you might get your tit in a wringer by saying something that isn't quite proper'
  7. 'There's been an awful lot of lying going on, and I'm not sure who's lying and who's telling the truth.'
  8. 'Ev has become an ethical pygmy.' - Stan Turley, President of Arizona State Senate

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