'I would describe a demagogue as a politician who don't keep his promises. On that basis, I'm the first man to have power in Louisiana who ain't a demagogue. I kept every promise I ever made to the people of Louisiana. None of these exes and belly-achers that have been fighting me down there ever kept his promises when he was in office. It was an unheard of thing in Louisiana until Huey P. Long got in.'

'Sure I carry a gun. Sometimes I carry four. Can't tell when somebody's going to shoot the King.'

Regarding the imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, 'Quote me as saying that that Imperial bastard will never set foot in Louisiana, and that when I call him a …

'I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men.'

I'm the one who will not raise taxes. My opponent now says he'll raise them as a last resort, or a third resort. But when a politician talks like that, you kno…

'A mass of promises

The purpose of this closed session in the Senate chamber is to finally give the truth to at least the members of the Senate-to finally call to task the chairma…