Connie Mack Quotations

Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is as true of baseball teams as any other pursuit in life.

You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own.

No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball.

I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.

The game has kept faith with the public, maintaining its old admission price for nearly thirty years while other forms of entertainment have doubled and tripled in price. And it will probably never change.

As one of nine men, DiMaggio is the best player that ever lived.

There has been only one manager, and his name is John McGraw.

If they're gong to call Monica Lewinsky, it makes sense that they know what in fact she's going to be testifying about,

I am going to recommend that the Senate engage in a hearing, and or hearings with respect to the use of force.

If the INS had stuck with its earlier position that it was a case about custody ... then everyone would have felt that an open, fair process had been followed,

I always saw this as a 2006 issue.

his ongoing, radical shift toward socialism and the elimination of freedom for the Venezuelan people.

There is a phrase around here that probably a few years ago didn't use very often. But it's called 'compartmentalization' and I would suggest that the person down in the White House is not the only one who has the ability to do that.

I would stress that the legislation I am proposing does not dictate an outcome,

It is a fair plan. It shares the benefits.

received specific assurances from the president of the United States that force would not be used in the middle of the night. Clearly, that pledge was broken.

The question is whether this government should use force to remove a 6-year-old boy from a family home in America. That's the question. And I think it is outrageous. I think it is horrifying to tell you the truth, that we would use excessive force like that,

This storm wasn't what we thought it was.

What I had hoped would happen, happened; it was a recognition that we weren't that far apart.

We have focused on big picture ideas that would improve the tax system for a large number of Americans.

When people escape the last tyrannical regime in the Western Hemisphere, they should not be greeted with water hoses and pepper spray. This is not the American way,

those people that oppose freedom and dislike the United States.

Connie entered the game when it was a game for roughnecks. He saw it become respectable, he lived to be a symbol of its integrity, and he enjoyed every minute of it.

After letting these families fight for several years to seek justice and after they succeeded in obtaining judgments from the courts, the administration has blocked them at every turn.

A number of years later the new hospital was built and the name was changed to the Milford Memorial Hospital. The original plaque inscribed ... now hangs in the emergency room.

An outfield composed of Cobb, Speaker and Ruth, even with Ruth, lacks the combined power of DiMaggio, Musial and Ted Williams.

There were very, very strong differences of opinion of the status of the negotiations that were taking place,

Congress is behind the president, ... There are very few people who are in favor of simply pulling out.

The notion is probably somewhere between $250,000 to $350,000.

The best interests of this boy have been undeniably neglected and his mother's wishes ignored, ... intimidated Elian's American family with its sheer weight, power and force.

in the best interest of the young man.

Clearly, under present law, the higher income folks benefit the most from those two aspects of the tax code.

He's an emerging threat, a gathering storm we have to pay attention to,

The Justice Department's daily threat to revoke Elian's legal permission to remain in this country is an outrageous tactic. It is a scheme to short-circuit a judicial process in which even the most heinous of criminals are given the right to appeal.