Ernest Hollings

Ernest Frederick "Fritz" Hollings (born 1922-01-01) served as a Democratic United States Senator from South Carolina from 1966 to 2005 as well as Governor of South Carolina (1959-1963) and Lieutenant Governor (1955-1959).

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• John Dewey, the educator said, no, no, let the free press report the truth to the American people and the needs will be reflected, to the congressmen and senators in Washington. And he was right. But they’re not telling the truth anymore. They all were doing the headlines rather than headway. They’re all getting by with perceptions; they’re all getting by with pollster politics. They’re not talking about the needs.
  • Interview by Bill Moyers, "Fritz Hollings on Making Government Work," Bill Moyers Journal (2008-07-25)

• You remind me of Hubert Humphrey. You talk too much
  • To Senator Paul Wellstone (D-MN) [1]

• When E. F. Hollings talks, nobody listens.
  • Alluding to the E. F. Hutton commercial of the 1980s, in reference to his unsuccessful presidential campaign in 1984. Connelley, Joel (February 3, 1986). "A sharp tongue can still draw victim's blood". The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved on December 8, 2009. 

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• There's no education in the second kick of a mule.

• Letting y'all regulate yourselves is like delivering lettuce by way of a rabbit.
  • To opponents of government regulation

• People always wonder how Peatsy and I stay together, with so many divorces around us. And a friend of ours used to say, "It's simple. They have a lot in common. They're both in love with the same fella."
  • During her husband's campaign for his party's presidential nomination in 1984, a reporter called their hotel room and asked to speak to Senator Hollings. Mrs. Hollings held the phone away from her mouth and said, "Hey, mister, you Hollings?"

• I'll take a drug test if you take an I.Q. test.
  • Responding to a Republican challenger who dared him to take a drug test

• But what have you done in this world?
  • While debating John Glenn, the former astronaut

• I did not have political relations with that man, Ken Lay.
  • On President Bush's effort to distance himself from the Enron scandal:

• I've never seen a better example of cash-and-carry government than this Bush administration and Enron.

• If you want a lesson in political anonymity, sponsor a bill with Phil Gramm.

• We hear those in the national Congress running around and saying, 'Free trade, free trade, I am for free trade,' when they know free trade is like dry water. There is no such thing.