Quotes from Lane Kirkland

Fritz Mondale is not some synthetic Masked Marvel or Mystery Man. He is not made of silicon and micro-chip flakes. He is made of flesh and blood and brains.

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?

To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.

The only way to convert a heathen is to travel into the jungle.

The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating American political life.

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.

My pappy told me never to bet my bladder against a brewery or get into an argument with people who buy ink by the barrel.