“I've always believed that if you had a fellow who works 150 percent of...” — Bert Lance Quote

I've always believed that if you had a fellow who works 150 percent of the time, he's going to beat a fellow who works something less than that.

Folks are serious about three things: Their religion, their family and, most of all, their money.

I devised the Bert Lance Toe Test then - you go out on the front porch of the house, turn 'The Washington Post' over with your big toe, and if your name's above the fold, you know you're not going to have a good day.

In politics, you have to understand that there are some cases where you'll never be able to get votes.

In politics, they don't want anything that deters whatever their goal is. When people get in the way of that, that's when people get hurt - and sometimes destroyed.

I would never turn my back on my fellow citizens.

Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.

Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign.

Mitt Romney talks a lot about all the things he's fixed. I can tell you that Massachusetts wasn't one of them. He's a fine fellow and a great salesman, but as governor he was more interested in having the job than doing it.

The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.