Quote #15
'I'm for the poor man - all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance.'
More from Huey P. Long
- 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!'
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- 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…
- 'There is no dictatorship in Louisiana. There is a perfect democracy there, and when you have a perfect democracy it is pretty hard to tell…
- '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 …
- After rejecting a naval appropriations bill in the Senate: 'I would prefer to vote this billion dollars to feed the starving rather than fo…
- 'Sure I carry a gun. Sometimes I carry four. Can't tell when somebody's going to shoot the King.'
- Criticizing the limitations of Roosevelt's New Deal: 'Not a single thin dime of concentrated, bloated, pompous wealth, massed in the hands …