My good friend Walter Mondale is a good lapdog. He'll give them [special interest groups] everything they want. He'll lick every hand.

- Ernest Hollings

[Mondale] was not born; he was appointed.

- Ernest Hollings

Jesse Jackson has to get back to "I am somebody" instead of "I am some color."

- Ernest Hollings

Sending money to Washington to have it administered and sent back is like getting a blood transfusion from your right arm to your left arm with a lea…

- Ernest Hollings

Someone has said the best nursing home is the U.S. Senate.

- Ernest Hollings

Glenn must think he's still in space. He's orbiting the issues faster than he orbited earth.

- Ernest Hollings

Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you'd find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, ra…

- Ernest Hollings

You remind me of Hubert Humphrey. You talk too much

- Ernest Hollings

Iraq was invaded to secure Israel and everybody knows it.

- Ernest Hollings