politicians-from-alabama

"It wasn’t too hard to sell the women on voting for me. I found there is a little loyalty in our sex."

"Cora Mae Brown was a true winner in the fight against the double-edged sword of racism and sexism."

"Brown had no fear of controversy, and she would openly disagree with other blacks."

"Working closely with the community during the Great Depression and into the war years, Brown aided and encouraged young African American women during a tumultuous time."

"Champion of the underprivileged"

"Energetic and able."

"She gave wise counsel, guidance and defense to those continuing to be caught in the confusing maze of the system."

"I have found sex a greater handicap than ever."

"I don’t expect much opposition because I am a woman. I haven’t found that too difficult a ‘handicap’ to overcome."

"These women voters have awakened and they expect their views to be properly represented. Women have always been able to bring sound and humane reasoning into everyday life. I believe they are the hope of the country."

"I was ready to leave for the Senate right then. I just thought, not even the women can stick together in here."

"Truly a modern-day Renaissance woman whose talent, drive and community spirit have long served as an inspiration for everyone and especially other women."

"Her background and her experience allowed her to connect with anyone. She projected a warm, caring personality whether she was talking to a rich country club member or a single mother wondering how she would feed her family."

"The No. 1 priority is to thank her for what she has done for the school."

"I did not run to be the first woman (elected to the Senate). I didn’t run from that perspective at all. I ran because education needed help."

"It’s really hard to be by yourself day in and day out and not talk to other people"

"I really didn’t like being in the House. It’s really difficult to get anything done. He’s just so good looking."

"I’ll tell you what, I married when I was 19, and after a while I had two children. We married way too young, didn’t know what we were doing, and very quickly decided we would get a divorce."

"It was called the Lawless Pool. “Because Mr. Lawless ran it. I always thought that was a funny name."

"It was a really good childhood, It was typical of the ‘30s in Alabama. Nobody locked their doors … If you did anything bad, misbehaved, your mama got a call, no matter where you were."

"I always kind of thought I’d just work at the sawmill. But life, as it often does, had other plans."

"The problem is, sometimes you get too interested."

"Moreover, Andrews’s name recognition and powerful supporters added to the long-term historical trends that favoured her candidacy."

"Failure to maintain order for all presidential candidates during their public appearances has resulted in an ominous atmosphere of tension, hostility, and clear danger."

"All Americans, regardless of philosophy or party affiliation, should be dismayed at this vicious assault on a man who dared to go out among the people in his quest for support in a presidential campaign."

"Womanhood per se was never an issue."

"She was always a great, wonderful, loving aunt."

"She was an older sister by 12 years to my father Jim. We were always close, and she always loved her state and country and always cared a lot about what was going on."

"Our schools should be focused on education, not indoctrination. Of course, our youngest students should not be learning about sex in the classroom – that’s the role of parents, not teachers. We need to get God back in our classrooms and return students to saying the Pledge of Allegiance every day while standing for our flag."

"President Trump is going to win the Nobel Peace Prize, no doubt!"

"God calls us to do hard things."

"We have got to have leaders that understand that you deter war through strength, and once again, we are seeing Joe Biden show total weakness. He showed it with Afghanistan, he’s shown it with Russia, and now, he’s once again showing it with China."

"Gun grabbers use so-called 'red flag laws' as a gateway to push their disarming agenda. In reality, a 'red flag law' is an abridgment of the Second Amendment and can be abused to take away the right to self-defense with no due process."

"I believe God commands us to support Israel."

"My first question when it comes to spending is: "Do we need it?" My second question is: "When the recession comes again, can we cut it?""

"The majority of these kids who go through this gender dysphoria grow out of it, so why would you recommend a drug or surgery that’s irreversible or can have harmful consequences? It’s just kind of common sense, but sometimes common sense just doesn’t happen. It’s kind of silly that you have to legislate this sort of thing."

"Everybody in America should be outraged about this because it could be your mother, your sister, your aunt, your daughter that got killed by one of these people. And we’ve got to put an end to that."

"I don't have to have a political office. I do it because I think it's public service. And if there was a position I thought I could truly render public service, I would consider it. But I don't know what that would be right now."

"They must not know much about Alabama. But Alabama does not like Washington swamp critters telling us who can or cannot run for public office and who we can and cannot vote for."

"I want to be real clear about one thing: America will suffer a debilitating insolvency if we continue on this path….We have been warned, but there are too many Congressmen and Senators who either lack the economic understanding or the political backbone to do what it takes to put the nation back on a sound financial footing….Washington’s reckless spending habits have us on a path to destroy what took two centuries of sacrifice to build."

"Please, don’t be like #FakeNewsMedia, don’t rush to judgment on assault on Capitol. Wait for investigation. All may not be (and likely is not) what appears. Evidence growing that fascist ANTIFA orchestrated Capitol attack with clever mob control tactics. Evidence follows: 1. A Congressman warned me on MONDAY of a growing ANTIFA threat & advised that I sleep in my office rather than leaving Capitol complex & sleeping in my condo. I heeded that advice & have slept on office floor for 4 straight nights. 2. Congressman told me he was warned on TUESDAY by Capitol Police officer that intelligence suggested fascist ANTIFA was going to try to infiltrate the Trump rally by dressing like Trump supporters. 3. Capitol Police advised TUESDAY that it best not to leave Capitol complex. 4. Evidence, much public, surfacing that many Capitol assaulters were fascist ANTIFAs, not Trump supporters. Again, time will reveal truth. Don’t rush to judgment. Don’t be fooled by #FakeNewsMedia whose political judgment drives their reporting. My view: fully prosecute all!"

"I see that issue as a states rights issue and I defer to what the states believe is the best policy. Personally, I don’t like marijuana and I hate its effects on the human body; but I am also a states rights guy. I trust that Alabama will do the right thing."

"We have been in a process of attaining a great degree of luxury, degrees of luxury which distract us... and we are consumed with such matters as wrap-around octophonic sound in our automobiles and so forth, we are becoming quite sophisticated with respect to non-necessities. This has happened to nations in the past, and it is my belief that man can cope with adversity, and that his most difficult problem, is coping with prosperity."

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"We are honored to have had the opportunity to serve our country under difficult circumstances. We are profoundly grateful to our Commander-in-Chief and to our nation for this day. God bless America."

"We've got to realize that we're in a ball game at a certain juncture, at this point, where we better go back to bipartisanship in looking at foreign policy, be we conservatives or liberals, or Democrats or Republicans, that this country is beginning to lose its footing in the world, not only as a leader, but as a friend, or as a credible enemy. We are being perceived, perhaps somewhat accurately, as a rather paralyzed giant that is ripe to fall off the tree like an over-ripe plum, and fulfill Khrushchev's prophecy, "We will bury you!" He didn't mean overcome us with nuclear weapons. He meant that we, in our sloppy thinking and presumption about not being able to live with prosperity, and not being able to look things in the eye, would simply weaken until our interests were eroded to the point, and our credibility was eroded to the point, that we couldn't stand."

"I was once in a rig which was inducing considerable pain, and I finally just said... God, you've got it. I can't take it any more. I can't handle it. I'm just putting it entirely in your hands, and from the instant I phrased that... I felt absolutely no pain. In fact, I felt the greatest sense of comfort, not only physical comfort, but psychological warmth and comfort that I have ever felt in my life, before or since."

"I’m a very strict constructionist of the Constitution and I know how to question, or I know how to vet—to use the word that the press uses all the time—candidates for judicial offices, and I think I would be very successful in the United States Senate in doing that because I think that there’s so many in the judiciary and legal establishment that don’t understand the Constitution, don’t understand the separation of powers, don’t understand the concepts of restraint of power in the Constitution."

"Ignoring the lessons of our history, Obama’s economic policies of big government, enlarged federal control over our lives and eventually, as even he predicts, increased taxation has garnered a name of its own – “Obamanomics.” Obamanomics is simply the philosophy of socialism, loosely defined as “collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production or distribution of goods.” Nations that embrace socialism inevitably experience stagnation and economic decline."

"Homosexual conduct is, and has been, considered abhorrent, immoral, detestable, a crime against nature, and a violation of the laws of nature and of nature’s God upon which this nation and our laws are predicated."