Connally Quotes

#1. John Connally's conversion to the GOP raised the intellectual level of both parties.

Frank Mankiewicz

#2. He mulled that over. "Sheriff Connally woulda let us shoot 'em."
I reached over and took his coffee away from him. "Yep. Lucian probably would have done the job himself, but we're living in more enlightened times." I drained his cup and handed it back with a smile. "Ain't it grand?

Craig Johnson

#3. I must say, to be very honest about it, that I held in my mind during the life of the Commission, that there had been three shots and that a separate shot struck Governor Connally.

John Sherman Cooper

#4. If you asked central casting in Hollywood for somebody to play the role of President, they'd send you John Connally.

Phil Crane

#5. When you're out of office, you can be a statesman.

John Connally

#6. And few hookups, if any, ever take place sober. And while wearing "beer goggles" may make people appear more attractive, it doesn't exactly make for sexual ecstasy! There's always been a difference between pleasure and scoring.

Michael Kimmel

#7. A chess tournament disguised as a circus.

John Connally

#8. I threw out all the bath water, and there was no baby there.

Dan Barker

#9. Too often what are called "educated" people are simply people who have been sheltered from reality for years in ivy-covered buildings. Those whose whole careers have been spent in ivy-covered buildings, insulated by tenure, can remain adolescents on into their golden retirement years.

Thomas Sowell

#10. People who don't know you, you don't know their motives. They smile at you all day, "Oh, that's great. You've done it again! You're the greatest!" And that's not good for an artist.

Jay-Z

#11. Your business clothes are naturally attracted to staining liquids. This attraction is strongest just before an important meeting.

Scott Adams

#12. In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent.

John Connally

#13. Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life As Rome denied Etruria And mechanical America Montezuma still

D.H. Lawrence