"I was wrong. Those days are over and they ought to be over."

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Source : Speech in 1979. "Government in America: People, Politics, and Policy" by George C. Edwards, Pearson Education, p. 80, 2009.

George C. Wallace

“Shane talking to Claire - "In this whole screwed up town, you're the only thing that's always been right to me," He whispered. "I love you, Claire”
“The man who does not learn to wait upon the Lord and have his thoughts molded by Him will never possess that steady purpose and calm trust, which is essential to the exercise of wise influence upon others, in times of crisis and difficulty.”
“You know just because you don't like the way it sounds when I say it or you don't like my haircut or you don't like that I'm gay, it does not mean that what we say is not true. If you squint a little bit, it is true I do sometimes look like a dude, and I am definitely gay.”
“I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom”
“You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.”
“There are only two kinds of songs; there's the blues, and there's zip-a-dee-doo-dah,”
“...Nixon's subversion [of the consititution] consisted of: One presidental lie; one invocation of presidental privilege, and zero criminal offences.”
“I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness.”

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