Ma Long Quotes

Sure we'll have Fascism here, but it will come as an anti-Fascism movement.

A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

I'm for the poor man - all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' - that's my slogan.

One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it.

The only difference I ever found between the Democratic leadership and the Republican leadership is that one of them is skinning you from the ankle up and the other, from the ear down.

NRA - Nuts Running America.

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.

Nothing will change until we change - until we throw off our dependence and act for ourselves.

When the robot mind is mastered, undisciplined thinking ceases and is replaced by awareness. Awareness can know love.

To say goodbye is to die a little.

Sports ideally teach discipline and commitment. They challenge you and build character for everything you do in life.

I love being a mother...I am more aware. I feel things on a deeper level. I have a kind of understanding about my body, about being a woman.

For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?

In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.

Acknowledgement is the only way to keep love alive.

I admire the women who can have babies and jump right back to work. As a nursing mother, I couldn’t sit there and just pump all day. I needed to be close to my baby.

If Fascism comes to America it would be on a program of Americanism.

We're going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us.

Part of being sane is being a little bit crazy.

Measuring Safety Performance by the number of injuries you have is like measuring parenting by the number of smacks you give

A [tax loophole is] something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.

Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself.

I look like a geeky hacker but I don’t know anything about computers.

The IRS has become morally corrupted by the enormous power which we in Congress have unwisely entrusted to it. Too often it acts like a Gestapo preying upon defenseless citizens.

A consistent peace activist must be an anarchist.

You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but the bat separates the men from the boys.

Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.

I was not a womanizer; I didn't date a lot. If I kissed somebody, I was basically married from that point on.

I'm not leaving you if you don't leave me.

You can't undo yesterday, you can work on today, tomorrow, you will wonder how you screwed up 2 days in a row

Don't liken me to that [SOB]. Anybody that lets his public policies be mixed up with religious prejudice is a plain [GD] fool.

The real enemy of safety is not non-compliance but non-thinking

I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me.

There was a sad fellow over on a bar stool talking to the bartender, who was polishing a glass and listening with that plastic smile people wear when they are trying not to scream.

All I care is what the boys at the forks of the creek think of me.

His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope.

I'd rather violate every one of the damn conventions and see my bills passed, than sit back in my office, all nice and proper, and watch 'em die.

Enjoy life, study hard, play hard, be kind to other people, set high standards, and don't be afraid to say "No."

Now, just a word about the poor Negroes... They're here. They've got to be cared for... The poor Negroes have got to live, too.

I'm a dyed-in-the-wool party man. I don't know just what party I am in right now, but I am for the party.

We like foreplay with God, but we make sure we have our spiritual contraceptives on! Cause we don't want to conceive nothing.

In a political fight, when you've got nothing in favour of your side, start a row in the opposition camp.

The Bible's the greatest book ever written. But I sure don't need anybody I can buy for six bits and a chew of tobacco to explain it to me.

We go to church buildings that still have a mortgage. Which means the bank owns God's house. Which means that we go and make love to God in a house that Satan owns!

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.

I'm not perfect, but I'd like to be perfect. I'm working on it.

I think it's a beautiful thing when you wear a uniform or a garb which represents a group of people, because what it immediately symbolizes is oneness, togetherness.

Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.

If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.

Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love.