Ernest Hollings Quotes & Sayings

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. — Ernest Hollings

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

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

You remind me of Hubert Humphrey. You talk too much — Ernest Hollings

[Mondale] was not born; he was appointed. — Ernest Hollings

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

Iraq was invaded to secure Israel and everybody knows it. — Ernest Hollings

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. — Ernest Hollings

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