Ralph McGill Quotations

What else can you name that has gone up that much? Probably not even gasoline. You have to ask why. The only conclusion I come to is, the federal government has grown bigger and bigger and has taken on more and more of the states' job. Government has become everything to everybody, and it was never meant to be.

We have a longtime incumbent who's well-embedded. My problem is, we've got a lot of problems in our culture, and nobody in Congress does anything about it.

I like him, but he's not getting the job done. Anybody who has been there that long would grow complacent and develop a feeling of immunity from the voters. The fact is, we keep sending people back to Washington year after year. I don't know how we expect anything to change.

She (Eleanor Roosevelt) got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.

You do not preach and encourage hatred for the Negro and hope to restrict it to that field. It is an old, old story. It is one repeated over and over again in history. When the wolves of hate are loosed on one people, then no one is safe.