Thurmond Quotes

#1. It rained the day they brought us to Thurmond.
And it rained the day I walked out.

Alexandra Bracken

#2. Now the Democrats control the Senate. But the good news is that now the Republicans can admit that Strom Thurmond has been dead since 1988.

Jay Leno

#3. I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott.

Carol Moseley Braun

#4. I wondered if she thought I was the girl she had carried out of Thurmond, who had cried the first time she'd seen the stars.
Because she didn't know that there were two of me now; split between everything I had wanted, and everything I would now have to be.

Alexandra Bracken

#5. Thurmond - same thing. Kennedy, Eisenhower, Clinton ... all men of power, and the power went right to their pants. Even FDR fooled around. This

Billy Crystal

#6. If Strom Thurmond could get 30% of the black vote, any Republican can.

Tim Scott

#7. I want to say this about my state. When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years either.

Trent Lott

#8. Elsewhere called the Strom Thurmond Maneuver.) Pujols of course blamed Beli for everything. Sat in the office of the rector and

Junot Diaz

#9. Despite his infirmities, Strom Thurmond showed up to work every day and did not miss a Senate vote in his final year, though no one is sure if a shouted 'Bingo!' counted as a yea or a nay.

Jon Stewart

#10. Back when they supported segregation, Lott and Thurmond were Democrats.

Ann Coulter

#11. I am not prejudiced against the Negro. When I was governor, I did more to help the Negroes in our State than any previous Governor, and I think you can find Negro leaders in the State who will attest to this fact.

Strom Thurmond

#12. If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society.

Strom Thurmond

#13. I feel like I have become a living fossil in the fashion world. Without even noticing it, in my own collection I have moved away from the street style.

Yohji Yamamoto

#14. Jude was down there. He was down there. And the last place I would ever leave Jude was alone in the darl.

Alexandra Bracken

#15. This bill, by vesting the power to withhold or terminate Federal funds, creates a concentration of power of economic coercion unequaled in the history of governments-a power concentration which defies the experience of mankind with the temptation of power to corrupt.

Strom Thurmond

#16. I thought I had escaped the monsters, that I'd left them locked up behind an electric fence. But the shadows were alive, and they had chased me here.

Alexandra Bracken

#17. If she had to choose something, she'd say it was his build. Women were ingrained to go for the biggest Neanderthal in the village and they didn't come much bigger than Preacher. Disreputable Renegade Souls member. Perpetual Don Juan and swinger of his dick.

V. Theia

#18. He looks like a female llama who has been surprised in the bath.

Winston Churchill

#19. I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want.

Emile Hirsch

#20. Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.

Terence McKenna

#21. I don't think it's a question of age as much as it's a question of what kind of shape you're in.

Strom Thurmond

#22. My dear sisters in humanity: Your beauty-both internal and external-is priceless. Only the man who marries you has a right to see it. Never forget, if he doesn't want to marry you, he doesn't deserve you.

Yasmin Mogahed

#23. Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better.

Strom Thurmond

#24. All the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement,

Strom Thurmond

#25. She walks well, she looks good. Let's see how she kisses.

Strom Thurmond

#26. We stand for the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race.

Strom Thurmond

#27. Tell me where are the flashbacks they all warned us would come?

Jimmy Buffett

#28. I love all of you men, but you women even more!

Strom Thurmond

#29. You really didn't have White Noise? Calm Control?" I demanded, surprised by the anger licking
at my heart. What camp had these kids been in? Candy Land?

Alexandra Bracken

#30. It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.

Strom Thurmond

#31. Life is life and fun is fun
and all is quiet when the goldfish dies.

Eric Andrews-Katz

#32. I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the nigra race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches.

Strom Thurmond

#33. Who is the ultimate dreamer? Call it as you will: God, higher consciousness, Krishna, spirit, whatever pleases you.. One dream, one dreamer, billions of embodied characters acting out that one dream.. Your true essence is that you are part and parcel of the one big dream.

Wayne Dyer

#34. I fully recognize and appreciate the many substantial contributions of black Americans and other minorities to the creation and preservation and development of our great nation.

Strom Thurmond

#35. 1. Your business needs more linchpins. It's scary to rely on a particular employee, but in a postindustrial economy, you have no choice. 2. You are capable of becoming a linchpin. And if you do, you'll discover that it's worth the effort.

Seth Godin

#36. As servants of the Lord Jesus Christ, it is our sacred responsibility to teach His standard of morality, which is the same for all of His children.

Quentin L. Cook

#37. Fashion could be more relevant. It needs to be understood rather than just consumed.

Stefano Pilati

#38. I have done more for black people than any other person in the nation, North or South,

Strom Thurmond

#39. The key to playing with any group is you listen all the time and you listen more than you play.

John Scofield

#40. Sometimes good television doesn't depend on money, it depends on imagination and good people directing, casting and doing the job with talented people.

Elisabeth Sladen

#41. The great delusion of modernity, is that the laws of nature explain the universe for us. The laws of nature describe the universe, they describe the regularities. But they explain nothing.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#42. Martin Luther King demeans his race and retards the advancement of his people.

Strom Thurmond

#43. The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.

Strom Thurmond