Ernest Hollings Quotes

• Someone has said the best nursing home is the U.S. Senate.

  Ernest Hollings

  Home, Nursing, Said

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• Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you'd find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva.

  Ernest Hollings

  Squares, Sea, Law

  "The Democratic Party’s Two-Facedness of Race Relations", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2011.

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• Sending money to Washington to have it administered and sent back is like getting a blood transfusion from your right arm to your left arm with a leaky valve.

  Ernest Hollings

  Blood, Arms, Valve

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• Jesse Jackson has to get back to "I am somebody" instead of "I am some color."

  Ernest Hollings

  Color, American Politics, Get Back

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• You remind me of Hubert Humphrey. You talk too much

  Ernest Hollings

  Too Much

  "Paul Wellstone was a true mensch and Christ-like soul - Columns" by Kris Berggren, "National Catholic Reporter", November 15, 2002.

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• My good friend Walter Mondale is a good lapdog. He'll give them [special interest groups] everything they want. He'll lick every hand.

  Ernest Hollings

  Good Friend, Hands, Giving

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• [Mondale] was not born; he was appointed.

  Ernest Hollings

  Born, American Politics

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• Iraq was invaded to secure Israel and everybody knows it.

  Ernest Hollings

  Israel, Iraq, Secure

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• Glenn must think he's still in space. He's orbiting the issues faster than he orbited earth.

  Ernest Hollings

  Thinking, Issues, Space

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