Quote #12

'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.'

More from Huey P. Long

  1. 'Sure I carry a gun. Sometimes I carry four. Can't tell when somebody's going to shoot the King.'
  2. Regarding the imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, 'Quote me as saying that that Imperial bastard will never set foot in Louisiana, and tha…
  3. 'I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men.'
  4. To Governor Oscar K. Allen: 'Goddamn you Oscar, don't you stall around with me! I can break you as easily as I made you!'
  5. 'Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy.'
  6. 'I'm for the poor man - all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance.'
  7. 'The only difference I ever found between the Democratic leadership and the Republican leadership is that one of them is skinning you from …
  8. 'Don't say I'm working for niggers. I'm not : 'Every Man a King' means every man, niggers along with the rest, but not especially for nigge…

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