Huey P. Long

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pl:Huey Long Huey P. Long, "The Kingfish", Louisiana governor

• "Every man a king, but no one wears a crown."

• "People say I steal. Well, all politicians steal. I steal. But a lot of what I stole has spilled over in no-toll bridges, hospitals . . . and to build this university." -- speech at Louisiana State University

• "The only difference I ever found between the Democratic leadership and the Republican leadership is that one of them is skinning you from the ankle up and the other, from the neck down."

• "If Fascism comes to America it would be on a program of Americanism."

• "Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy."

• "Sure I carry a gun. Sometimes I carry four. Can't tell when somebody's going to shoot the King."

• "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 ain't a demagogue. I kept every promise I ever made to the people of Louisiana. None of these exes and belly-achers that have been fighting me down there ever kept his promises when he was in office. It was an unheard of thing in Louisiana until Huey P. Long got in."

• Regarding the imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, "Quote me as saying that that Imperial bastard will never set foot in Louisiana, and that when I call him a sonofabitch I am not using profanity, but am referring to the circumstances of his birth."

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