After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.
I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.
I'm the lamest lame duck there could be.
I've read about foreign policy and studied - I know the number of continents.
I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.
If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of.
Look at all the buses now that want exact change, exact change. I figure if I give them exact change, they should take me exactly where I want to go.
Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever!
Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.
Sure, I look like a white man. But my heart is as black as anyone's here.
The doves in this country and some of the media are the cause of fifty-some-odd-thousand Americans being killed and all that money being spent, and all that inflation.
They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia.
Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?
Segregation then, segregation now, segregation forever.
Governor of Alabama (1963-67, 1971-79, 1983-87).
Former governor of Alabama and independent candidate for US presidency.
Governor of Alabama (1962-1966) Candidate for U.S. President (1968, 1972, 1976)
Died the very night Gary Sinise won an Emmy for portraying him in the TNT mini-series "George Wallace."
Was staunchly opposed to integrating schools at any level. In 1963, he stood at the door of the admissions office at the University of Alabama and refused to allow two African-American females to enroll at the school. Wallace backed down under pressure from the NAACP and the girls were allowed admission.
In 1966, his first wife, Lurleen Burns Wallace, ran for governor of Alabama and won. Wallace wanted to maintain a foothold in Alabama politics while orchestrating his own campaign for President of the U.S. Lurleen died of cancer while in office in 1968.
In his 1968 independent campaign for President, he received almost enough total votes to throw the decision of choosing the President into the House of Representatives. Richard Nixon won by a narrow margin.
Nephew of Gov. James E. Folsom Sr..
Cousin of Gov. James E. Folsom Jr..
While campaigning in Laurel, Maryland in May 1972, Wallace was shot four times by a would-be assassin named Arthur Herman Bremer. Three other people were wounded in the shooting; all survived. Bremer's diary, published after his arrest as "An Assassin's Diary", showed that Bremer's assassination attempt was not motivated by politics, but by a desire to become famous, and that President Nixon had also been a possible target. The assassination attempt left Wallace paralyzed, as one of the bullets that hit him had lodged in his spinal column.
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