Charles Evers

Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you.

Two people will never be President in my lifetime. A woman and a black.

Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.

In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.

We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.