George wallace Quotes

The George Wallace campaign in 1968 was the model for the Trump campaign in 2016.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

A vote for George Wallace is a vote for the past and oppression.

— Coretta Scott King

I feel George Wallace symbolizes something in the past which America has rejected.

— Coretta Scott King

George Wallace is gone; Bull Connor is dead. He's not coming back.

— Luther Strange

It is my personal plan to assassinate by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace.

— Arthur Bremer

I was the only one in the dorm who was heartbroken when George Wallace decided not to run for president.

— Scott Bessent

Now I start my diary of my personal plot to kill by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace.

— Arthur Bremer

We should not forget that in the '60s, George Wallace's motto was 'segregation forever,' and that he did nothing to deter bombings…

— Coretta Scott King

American populist politics has a long tradition, from Andrew Jackson to Huey Long to Joseph McCarthy. But the politician Trump is most…

— Joy Reid

American history has always had elements of what we now think of as Trumpism - Joe McCarthy, George Wallace, Father Coughlin. It's…

— Bill Kristol

Southern Republicans are guided by the Bible. Western Republicans read the Constitution. Seen in historical terms, it's the difference between a movement…

— Jacob Weisberg

Trump channeled ethno-populist rage as naturally and charismatically as George Wallace had during the 1960s, while seating a billionaire cabinet.

— Joy Reid

“George Bush is a WASP. George Wallace may have been a white Protestant of Anglo-Saxon descent, and even rather vocal on all…

— Christopher Hitchens

Among the roles I've played on stage, television and in films were politicos as diverse as Abe Lincoln, Juan Peron, Herman Goering,…

— Bob Gunton

Coming out of the anti - coming out of the Republican heritage of Abraham Lincoln, Frank Johnson could see it more clearly…

— Jeff Sessions

“I’m not sure I’m going to like Don Mincher. I keep hearing that big southern accent of his. It’s prejudice, I know,…

— Jim Bouton

In 1968, 'Liberty Magazine' had an article about George Wallace in which he stated he would suggest me as a possible vice-presidential…

— Colonel Sanders

At some point in our lifetime, gay marriage won't be an issue, and everyone who stood against this civil right will look…

— George Clooney

I went out on the road when I was 12 years old, playing with the Sullivan Family Gospel Singers. That was the…

— Marty Stuart

George Wallace for some strange, unknown reason, he liked me. George Wallace came down to Florida, and he went all over Florida,…

— Shirley Chisholm

A man I admire and respect - Congressman John Lewis, an American hero, made allegations that Sarah Palin and I were somehow…

— John McCain

American populism is no stranger to our political life. From the earliest anti-Federalists to William Jennings Bryan, Huey Long, and George Wallace,…

— Rick Wilson

“Donald Trump, whose signature contribution to political debate had been his relentless propagation of the lie that Barack Obama is not an…

— James Forman Jr

“I know I grew up in the time when a young man in a baggy suit and slicked-down hair stood spraddle-legged in…

— Rick Bragg

“FALSE EQUIVALENCY If you compare the Koch brothers to George Soros and you compare MSNBC to FOX News then why not compare…

— E. Landon Hobgood

One thing that I'd just remind young people of is that when John Lewis, who's a member of Congress today, defied George…

— Keith Ellison

“Actual class struggles apart, one of the aesthetic ways you could prove that there was a class system in America was by…

— Christopher Hitchens

Donald Trump is using an age-old trick of right wing populism, much like George Wallace, much like Joe McCarthy, Pitchfork Ben Tillman…

— Keith Ellison

I guess maybe the only time I met George Wallace was when - at a boy scout meeting in Montgomery, and he…

— Jeff Sessions

Among the roles Ive played on stage, television and in films were politicos as diverse as Abe Lincoln, Juan Peron, Herman Goering,…

— Bob Gunton

“George Wallace, who had been Governor of Alabama during the worst of the troubles there. Wallace had a knack of appealing to…

— Hugh Brogan

I don't gamble anymore since I had a kid. I have fun in Vegas. I see shows, Cirque du Soleil. Don Rickles…

— Greg Fitzsimmons

For all the talk about the bitterness and the partisanship in American politics, is it really that bitter and partisan? Think of…

— William Kristol