George C. Wallace Quotes

“They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia.”

— George C. Wallace

“Look at all the buses now that want exact change, exact change. I figure if I give them exact change, they should take me exactly where I want to go.”

— George C. Wallace

“I'm the lamest lame duck there could be.”

— George C. Wallace

“Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?”

— George C. Wallace

“If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of.”

— George C. Wallace

Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever!

— George C. Wallace

I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.

— George C. Wallace

“Sure, I look like a white man. But my heart is as black as anyone's here.”

— George C. Wallace

Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.

— George C. Wallace

“I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.”

— George C. Wallace

“After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.”

— George C. Wallace

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

— George C. Wallace

“Zeal is ever the buckler and shield of a true soldier.”

— George C. Wallace

I was out-niggered, and I will never be out-niggered again.

— George C. Wallace