Bert Lance

Some people just decide they won't vote for you, but it doesn't have to be all negative.

— Bert Lance

I happen to truly believe this: Success is a journey and not a destination.

— Bert Lance

It's never easy to say you're sorry.

— Bert Lance

If you have a situation where you need help, it doesn't make any difference where it comes from.

— Bert Lance

If the house is on fire, and the fireman shows up, you don't question his color or credentials. You don't send him…

— Bert Lance

Go out on the front porch of the house, turn the Washington Post over with your big toe, and if your name's…

— Bert Lance

All these years, they've been giving lip service to saying that we are a party that is inclusive instead of exclusive. We've…

— Bert Lance

I don't know how smart I am. I just try to be what I am. I hope I'm modest. I think that's…

— Bert Lance

I did not want to be a source of diversion from the Mondale-Ferraro ticket. It appears no matter what I did or…

— Bert Lance

I'm a futures man.

— Bert Lance

The press aren't willing to wait for whatever the truth is - the truth never catches up with the lie... Destroying people…

— Bert Lance

I don't see I'll ever arrive at the point where I'll say, 'Lance old boy, you've arrived at success.' There's no question…

— Bert Lance

I guess it is ironical that I have a chance to say to Jesse Jackson, 'You need to be mature. You need…

— Bert Lance

I've always tried to set some kind of goal. I want to be better than anybody in the banking business, and when…

— Bert Lance

In politics, they don't want anything that deters whatever their goal is. When people get in the way of that, that's when…

— Bert Lance

In politics, you have to understand that there are some cases where you'll never be able to get votes.

— Bert Lance

I devised the Bert Lance Toe Test then - you go out on the front porch of the house, turn 'The Washington…

— Bert Lance

Jesse Jackson is not anti-Semitic, but in politics, you always get in trouble when you try to be cute.

— Bert Lance

I've always believed that if you had a fellow who works 150 percent of the time, he's going to beat a fellow…

— Bert Lance

Folks are serious about three things: Their religion, their family and, most of all, their money.

— Bert Lance

Country banks are more flexible in their lending policies than their city brethren are.

— Bert Lance