Quotes

In some ways, September 11, 2001, seems a long time ago. Yet we have done so much in only a few years, and we will continue to do so in the future, to prevent such attacks on America.

George Allen

I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.

George Allen

I have always advocated for funding and programs that increase our productivity and competitiveness.

George Allen

I am confident that with the wholesome character of our American people, justice will prevail and liberty will endure.

George Allen

Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little.

George Allen

Every day you waste is one you can never make up.

George Allen

All Senators should aspire to be role models, and to the extent that people who have led the American dream, modern-day Horatio Algers stories should be an added plus to all their intellect, capabilities, and experiences.

George Allen

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

Fred Allen

When a radio comedian's program is finally finished it slinks down Memory Lane into the limbo of yesteryear's happy hours. All that the comedian has to show for his years of work and aggravation is the echo of forgotten laughter.

Fred Allen

What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement?

Fred Allen

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

Fred Allen

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Fred Allen

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Fred Allen

The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.

Fred Allen

The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.

Fred Allen

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.

Fred Allen

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Fred Allen

The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.

Fred Allen

The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed.

Fred Allen

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

Fred Allen