Ernest Hollings Quotations

If they've been put there to fight, there are far too few. If they've been put there to be killed, there are far too many.

There is no education in the second kick of a mule

Someone has said the best nursing home is the U.S. Senate.

We've lost 14 astronauts and $5 billion in hardware with upgrades,

We can't keep spending $100 million on embassies,

Why not get rid of Samaranch? Let's apply some pressure,

These actions not only raise question about possible conflicts of interests, but clearly were inappropriate given the ramifications of the agreement regarding antitrust enforcement policy,

You remind me of Hubert Humphrey. You talk too much

Sending money to Washington to have it administered and sent back is like getting a blood transfusion from your right arm to your left arm with a leaky valve.

Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you'd find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva.

Glenn must think he's still in space. He's orbiting the issues faster than he orbited earth.

Jesse Jackson has to get back to "I am somebody" instead of "I am some color."

[Mondale] was not born; he was appointed.

My good friend Walter Mondale is a good lapdog. He'll give them [special interest groups] everything they want. He'll lick every hand.

Iraq was invaded to secure Israel and everybody knows it.

Someone has said the best nursing home is the U.S. Senate.

A giant oak in the forest of public service has fallen,

The commission, with this order, has turned the people's public interest commission into an instrument of corporate greed,