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Huey Long

Huey Pierce Long, Jr. (August 30, 1893 – September 10, 1935), known as "The Kingfish," was an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a United States Senator from 1932 until his assassination in 1935. He was a populist member of the Democratic Party and rose to national prominence during the Great Depression for his vocal criticism of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal, which Long deemed insufficiently radical. As the political leader of Louisiana, he commanded wide networks of supporters and often took forceful action. A controversial figure, Long is celebrated as a populist champion of the poor or, conversely, denounced as a fascistic demagogue.

Quotes

 * Every man a king, but no one wears a crown.
 * Written on banners used in the 1928 gubernatorial election; quoted in Hugh Davis Graham, Huey Long (1970), p. 39.

 * Don't liken me to that [SOB]. Anybody that lets his public policies be mixed up with religious prejudice is a plain [GD] fool.
 * Huey Long on Adolf Hitler and nazism. (Williams p. 761P)

 * Whenever this administration has gone to the left I have voted for it, and whenever it has gone to the right I have voted against it.
 * Huey Long on the new deal. (Williams p. 708)

 * The trouble is, Roosevelt hasn't taken all of my ideas; just part of them. I'm about one hundred yards ahead of him. We're on the same road, but I'm here and he's there.
 * Huey Long (Williams p. 637)

I know the hearts of the People because I have not colored my own. I know when I am right in my own conscience. I do not talk one way in the cloakroom and another way out here. I do not talk one way back there in the hills of Louisiana and another way here in the Senate. I have one language. Ignorant as it is, it is the universal language within the sphere in which I operate. Its simplicity gains pardon for my lack of letters and education. Nonetheless my voice will be the same as it has been. Patronage will not change it. Fear will not change it. Persecution will not change it. It cannot be changed while people suffer. The only way it can be changed is to make the lives of these people decent and respectable. No one will ever hear political opposition out of me when that is done.
 * Mr. President, I am not undertaking to answer the charge that I am ignorant. It is true. I am an ignorant man. I have had no college education. I have not even had a high school education. But the things that takes me far in politics is that I do not have to color what comes into my mind and into my heart. I say it unvarnished. I say it without veneer. I have not the learning to do otherwise, and therefore my ignorance is often not detected.
 * Huey Long, U.S. Senate floor speech, March 5, 1935

 * I'm for the poor man — all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' — that's my slogan.
 * Huey Long (T. Harry Williams, Huey Long, p. 706)

 * I don't know much about Hitler. Except that last thing, about the Jews. There has never been a country that put its heel down on the Jews that ever lived afterwards.
 * Huey Long (Williams p. 761)

 * Treat them just the same as anybody else, give them an opportunity to make a living, and to get an education.
 * Huey Long on his Negro policy as President (Williams p. 704)

 * Now, just a word about the poor Negroes … They're here. They've got to be cared for … The poor Negroes have got to live, too.
 * Huey Long as Governor (Williams p. 704)

 * They kept on hollering, and I simply had to put my foot down. I said, 'I'm the governor and I say the ignorant in this state have to learn, blacks as well as whites.' And they learned.
 * Huey Long on conservative resistance to illiteracy programs for Negroes (Williams p. 706)

 * We started them to school. They learned to read. They learned to work simple arithmetic problems. Now some of our plantation owners can't figure the poor devils out of everything at the close of each year.
 * Huey Long on Negro education (Williams p. 524)

 * And it is here under this oak where Evangeline waited for her lover, Gabriel, who never came. This oak is an immortal spot, made so by Longfellow's poem, but Evangeline is not the only one who has waited here in disappointment. Where are the schools that you have waited for your children to have, that have never come? Where are the roads and the highways that you send your money to build, that are no nearer now than ever before? Where are the institutions to care for the sick and disabled? Evangeline wept bitter tears in her disappointment, but it lasted through only one lifetime. Your tears in this country, around this oak, have lasted for generations. Give me the chance to dry the eyes of those who still weep here!
 * Speech given during the 1928 gubernatorial election; quoted in Hugh Davis Graham, Huey Long (1970), p. 40.

 * For the present you can just call me the Kingfish.
 * Every Man a King (1933), p. 277.

 * We swapped the tyrant 3,000 miles away for a handful of financial slaveowning overlords who make the tyrant of Great Britain seem mild.
 * 1933 Congressional Record, 72d Cong, 2d sess., Vol. 76; quoted in Hugh Davis Graham, Huey Long (1970), p. 55.

 * Education and training for all children to be equal in opportunity in all schools, colleges, universities, and other institutions of training in the professions and vocations in life; to be regulated on the capacity of children to learn, and not on the ability of parents to pay the costs. Training for life's work to be as much universal and thorough for all walks of life as has been the training in the arts of killing.
 * Number 7 in the sum and substance of the Share our Wealth program (1935); quoted in Hugh Davis Graham, Huey Long (1970), p. 74.

 * No man has ever been President of the United States more than two terms. You know that; everyone knows that. But when I get in, I'm going to abolish the, have universal suffrage, and I defy any sonofabitch to get me out under four terms.
 * Response by Long during an interview with the journalist Forrest Davis (1933); quoted in Hugh Davis Graham, Huey Long (1970).

 * Quote me as saying that that Imperial bastard will never set foot in Louisiana, and that when I call him a sonofabitch I am not using profanity, but am referring to the circumstances of his birth.
 * When the head of the Ku Klux Klan, Hiram W Evans, threatened to campaign against Long in Louisiana; quoted in "Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression," Alan Brinkley. Random House Digital: 2011.

 * I wonder why he shot me.
 * Said on September 8, 1935 on his way to the hospital following being shot outside the State Capitol; quoted in Harry T. Williams, Huey Long (Vingtage Books/Random House, 1969), p. 866.

Misattributed

 * When the United States gets fascism, it will call it anti-fascism.
 * Variant: When the United States gets fascism, it will call it 100 percent Americanism.
 * Originally reported by Robert Cantrell. However, years later Cantrell told Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. that it was his own summary of his conversation with Long, not Long's exact words. See They Never Said It by Paul F. Boller and John H. George (1990).

About Huey Long

 * In alphabetical order by author or source.

 * Strictures, reproaches, and intemperate speeches from the Senator of Louisiana are really the wailings of an apostle of despair; he has lost control of himself, he is trying to play billiards with elliptical billiard balls and a spiral cue.
 * Henry Fountain Ashurst "Long is Chastened by Ashurst Attack" The New York Times (June 16, 1935), p. 1, 24

 * With Huey Long's death I lost most of my interest in the present political picture.
 * Smedley Butler, American Renegade: The Life and Times of Smedley Butler, USMC, Braden, p. 212

 * But the American leader most often accused of fascist tendencies was Huey Long. As Louisiana governor (and senator), Long imposed local martial law, censored the newspapers, forbade public assemblies, packed the courts and legislatures with his cronies, and installed his twenty-four-year-old lover as secretary of state. Long was a racketeer, but his "Share Our Wealth" program did improve local conditions, building roads and bridges, investing in hospitals and schools, and abolishing the poll tax. His economic populism was also not predicated on furthering racial, ethnic, or religious divisions; he subordinated his white supremacism to his redistributionist political message. "We just lynch an occasional nigger," he breezily declared when dismissing anti-lynching laws, though he also recognized "you can’t help poor white people without helping Negroes," and so was prepared for his rising tide to lift all boats. When Long set his sights on the 1936 presidential election, Franklin D. Roosevelt was sufficiently alarmed to inform his ambassador to Germany: "Long plans to be a candidate of the Hitler type for the presidency," predicting that by 1940 Long would try to install himself as a dictator.
 * Sarah Churchwell, "American Fascism: It Has Happened Here" The New York Review of Books (April 22, 2020)

 * The only kind of band in which Huey Long could play was a one-man band.
 * Rich Lowry, "Donald Trump Is Our Huey Long" Politico Magazine (August 10, 2023)

 * Huey Long: Every Man a King. Make the Standard Oil pay — which is what he did in Louisiana. Built Tulane, built hospitals, siphoned all that money right into the state so everyone could benefit. Roosevelt was scared to death of him in 1936, because Huey was going to run on a third ticket. And he could have denied Roosevelt a second term, and Huey’s plan was that he himself would be — in 1940 — he would be the Democratic nominee and Roosevelt would be finished. And then we would get Huey Longism, which was true populism. The money was going to go to the people for the things that would make the people’s lives better.
 * Gore Vidal, "'This Place Is Broken': The Gore Vidal Interview Part II"

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Under the Tuscan Sun (film)

Under the Tuscan Sun is a 2003 film about a newly divorced writer who buys a villa in Tuscany on a whim, hoping it will be the start of a change for the better in her life.
 * Directed and written by Audrey Wells, based on the book by Frances Mayes.

Life offers you a thousand chances ... all you have to do is take one.taglines

Frances

 * What is it about love that makes us so stupid?
 * Every day, I watch for the old man with the flowers, and I wonder, was he born here? Did he love someone here? Did he lose someone here? He doesn't seem as curious about me, but that's all right. These days, I'm something of a loner myself.
 * I'd like to make an offer on the house. This is what I can pay, minus the work on the place, buckets, nails ... chocolate, and a rental car to drive off a cliff when this all turns out to have been a terrible mistake.
 * I still got it! I still got it! I still got it! — Thank God!
 * So I was now the owner of a villa whose lands it would take two oxen two days to plow. Owning neither an ox nor a plow, I'd have to take their word for that.
 * What are four walls, anyway? They are what they contain. The house protects the dreamer. Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game. It's such a surprise.
 * Signora, between Austria and Italy, there is a section of the Alps called the Semmering. It is an impossibly steep, very high part of the mountains. They built a train track over these Alps to connect Vienna and Venice. They built these tracks even before there was a train in existence that could make the trip. They built it because they knew some day, the train would come.
 * It's market day in Cortona — the piazza is an on-going party — and everyone is invited.
 * In Italian, the literal translation of "to give birth" — "dare alla luce" — is: "to give to the light".
 * The fact that I'm trying to speak Polish in Italy is one of the many surprises around here.

Katherine

 * Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.
 * No matter what happens, always keep your childish innocence. It's the most important thing.

Martini

 * Signora, please stop being so sad. If you continue like this, I will be forced to make love to you. And I've never been unfaithful to my wife.

Patti

 * Life is strange.
 * You know when you come across one of those empty shell people, and you think "What the hell happened to you?" Well there came a time in each one of those lives where they are standing at a crossroads... someplace where they had to decide whether to turn left or right. This is no time to be a chicken-shit, Frances.
 * Jesus, Frances, how do you do it — how do you ever breathe again?

Other

 * She's "Sylvia" in La Dolce Vita. She's very good actually.
 * Fefe said "You have to live spherically, in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm and things will come your way."
 * Sorry everybody, unscheduled stop.
 * Un signo di Dio. A sign from God.
 * What brings you to Positano?
 * Marcello
 * There is nothing to regret.

Dialogue

 * Patti: Think of your inner voice.
 * Frances: Inner voice... "What the fuck am I doing on a gay tour of Tuscany?"

 * Frances: Do you know the most surprising thing about divorce? It doesn't actually kill you. Like a bullet to the heart or a head-on car wreck. It should. When someone you've promised to cherish till death do you part says "I never loved you," it should kill you instantly. You shouldn't have to wake up day after day after that, trying to understand how in the world you didn't know. The light just never went on, you know. I must have known, of course, but I was too scared to see the truth. Then fear just makes you so stupid.
 * Martini: No, it's not stupid, Signora Mayes. L'amore e cieco.
 * Frances: Oh, love is blind. Yeah, we have that saying too.
 * Martini: Everybody has that saying because it's true everywhere.

 * Frances: Do traffic lights mean anythng around here?
 * Marcello: Yeah, sure. Green light — avanti, avanti. Yellow light — decoration.
 * Frances: What about red light?
 * Marcello: Just a suggestion.

 * Katherine: It's a nice little villa. Rather run down, but redeemable... Are you going to buy it?
 * Frances: The way my life is currently going, that would be a terrible idea.
 * Katherine: Mm, terrible idea... Don't you just love those?

 * Patti: There's something strange about these trees. It's like they know.
 * Frances: And they know that we know that they know.
 * Patti: They're creepy. Creepy Italian trees. Of course, the baby's going to like them cause it's going to be a creepy Italian baby who goes around saying things like 'Ciao mama' and doing that weird backward hand wave thing. Life is strange.

 * Frances: What if this is it? The real thing?
 * Placido: What you speak of is only in fairy tales.
 * Frances: No, it's not!
 * Placido: And how do you know? From personal experience?
 * Frances: No. I looked, and I didn't find it. But that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

 * Frances: What are you thinking?
 * Martini: What do I think?
 * Frances: Tell me.
 * Martini: I think you got your wish.
 * Frances: My wish?
 * Martini: On that day we looked for the snake, you said there wanted there to be a wedding here. And you said... you wanted there to be a family here.
 * Frances: You're right... I got my wish. I got everything I asked for.

Taglines

 * Life offers you a thousand chances ... all you have to do is take one.
 * The Only Thing More Surprising Than The Chance She's Taking...Is Where It's Taking Her

Cast

 * Diane Lane - Frances Mayes
 * Sandra Oh - Patti
 * Lindsay Duncan - Katherine
 * Raoul Bova - Marcello
 * Vincent Riotta - Martini
 * Mario Monicelli - Old man with flowers
 * Roberto Nobile - Placido
 * Kate Walsh - Grace
 * Pawel Szajda - Pawel
 * David Sutcliffe - Ed

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Clue (film)

Clue is a 1985 U.S. comedy film based on the boardgame Clue (a.k.a. Cluedo). The film uses the characters and murder mystery premise of the boardgame as the basis for a quickfire farce.
 * Directed by Jonathan Lynn. Written by John Landis and Jonathan Lynn.

It's Not Just A Game Anymore.taglines

Dialogue

 * Col. Mustard: I prefer Kipling myself. "The female of the species is more deadly than the male." Do you like Kipling, Miss Scarlet?
 * Miss Scarlet: Sure, I'll eat anything.

 * Col. Mustard: Wadsworth, am I right in thinking there's nobody else in this house?
 * Wadsworth: Um... no.
 * Col. Mustard: Then there is someone else in this house?
 * Wadsworth: Sorry, I said "no" meaning "yes."
 * Col. Mustard: "No" meaning "yes?" Look, I want a straight answer, is there someone else, or isn't there, yes, or no?
 * Wadsworth: No.
 * Col. Mustard: No there is, or no there isn't?
 * Wadsworth: Yes.
 * Mrs. White: [Smashes glass on fireplace] PLEASE! Don't you think we should get that man out of the house before he finds out what's been going on here!
 * [Drops the rest of the glass with a crash]
 * Miss Scarlet: Yeah!
 * Professor Plum: How can we throw him outside in this weather?
 * Miss Scarlet: If we let him stay in the house, he may get suspicious!
 * Professor Plum: If we throw him out, he may get even more suspicious!
 * Col. Mustard: If I were him, I'd be suspicious already!
 * Mrs. Peacock: [hysterical] Oh, who cares? That guy doesn't matter! Let him stay locked up for another half an hour. The police will be here by then... and there are two dead bodies in the study!
 * All: Shhhhhhhhhhh!
 * Col. Mustard: Well, there is still some confusion as to whether or not there is anybody else in this house!
 * Wadsworth: I told you, there isn't.
 * Col. Mustard: There isn't any confusion, or there isn't anybody else?
 * Wadsworth: Either! Or both.
 * Col. Mustard: Just give me a clear answer!
 * Wadsworth: Certainly! [clears throat] What was the question?
 * Col. Mustard: [shouting] Is there anybody else in this house?
 * All: [shouting] No!

 * Wadsworth: I'm merely a humble butler.
 * Col. Mustard: What exactly do you do?
 * Wadsworth: I buttle, sir.

 * Wadsworth: Professor Plum, you were once a professor of psychiatry specializing in helping paranoid and homicidal lunatics suffering from delusions of grandeur.
 * Professor Plum: Yes, but now I work for the United Nations.
 * Wadsworth: So I see your work has not changed.

 * Mrs. Peacock: Yvette, is there a little girls' room in the hall?
 * Yvette: Oui, oui, madame.
 * Mrs. Peacock: No, I just I wanna powder my nose.

 * Wadsworth: Mrs. White, you've been paying our friend, the blackmailer, ever since your husband died under, shall we say, mysterious circumstances?
 * Miss Scarlet: Ah!  [laughs]
 * Mrs. White: Why is that funny?
 * Miss Scarlet: I see! That's why he was lying on his back, in his coffin.
 * Mrs. White: I didn't kill him.
 * Col. Mustard: Then why are you paying the blackmailer?
 * Mrs. White: I don't want a scandal, do I? We had had a very humiliating public confrontation. He was deranged. A lunatic. He didn't actually seem to like me very much; he had threatened to kill me in public.
 * Miss Scarlet: Why would he wanna kill you in public?
 * Wadsworth: I think she meant he threatened, in public, to kill her.
 * Miss Scarlet: Oh. Was that his final word on the matter?
 * Mrs. White: Being killed is pretty final, wouldn't you say?
 * Wadsworth: And yet, he was the one who died, not you, Mrs. White, not you!
 * Miss Scarlet: What did he do for a living?
 * Mrs. White: He was a scientist, nuclear physics.
 * Miss Scarlet: What was he like?
 * Mrs. White: He was always a rather stupidly optimistic man. I mean, I'm afraid it came as a great shock to him when he died, but, he was found dead at home. His head had been cut off, and so had his, uh... you *know*.
 * [Colonel Mustard, Professor Plum, and Mr. Green cross legs]
 * Mrs. White: I had been out all evening at the movies.
 * Miss Scarlet: Do you miss him?
 * Mrs. White: Well, it's a matter of life after death. Now that he's dead, I have a life.
 * Wadsworth: But, he was your second husband. Your first husband also disappeared.
 * Mrs. White: But that was his job. He was an illusionist.
 * Wadsworth: But he never reappeared!
 * Mrs. White: [admittedly] He wasn't a very good illusionist.

 * Col. Mustard: [indignant] Are you trying to make me look stupid in front of the other guests?!
 * Wadsworth: [dryly] You don't need any help from me, sir.
 * Col. Mustard: That's right!

 * [after catching Mrs. Peacock in the second ending]
 * Wadsworth: You see, like the Mounties, we always get our man!
 * Mr. Green: Mrs. Peacock was a man?!
 * [Colonel Mustard and Wadsworth each slap him]
 * Wadsworth: Would anyone care for fruit or dessert?

 * [In the third ending]
 * Wadsworth: You were jealous that your husband was schtupping Yvette. That's why you killed him, too.
 * Mrs. White: Yes. Yes, I did it. I killed Yvette. I hated her, so much...it flames, flames on the side of my face, breathing, heaving breaths, heaving...

 * Professor Plum: It must've been Mr. Green who shot the singing telegram!
 * Mr. Green: I didn't do it!
 * Col. Mustard: Well, there's nobody else left!
 * Mr. Green: But I didn't do it! The gun is missing! Whoever's got the gun shot the girl!
 * [Wadsworth draws the gun]
 * Wadsworth: I shot her.
 * Col. Mustard, Mrs. Peacock, Mrs. White, Ms. Scarlet, Prof. Plum: You?!
 * Mr. Green: So it was you. I was going to expose you.
 * Wadsworth: I know. So I choose to expose myself.
 * Col. Mustard: Please! There are ladies present.
 * Wadsworth: You thought Mr. Boddy was dead, but why? None of you even met him until tonight.
 * Mr. Green: You're Mr. Boddy!
 * [Wadsworth grins and laughs]
 * Prof. Plum: Wait a minute! So who did I kill?
 * Wadsworth: My butler.
 * Prof. Plum: Oh, shucks.
 * Wadsworth: He was expendable, like all of you. I'm grateful to you all for disposing of my network of spies and informers. Saved me a lot of trouble. Now there's no evidence against me.
 * Mrs. White: This all has nothing to do with my disappearing nuclear physicist husband or Colonel Mustard's work on the new top secret fusion bomb?
 * Wadsworth: No. Communism is just a red herring.
 * Mr. Green: But the police will be here any minute. You'll never get away with this, any of you.
 * Wadsworth: Why should the police come? Nobody's called them.
 * Mrs. Peacock: You mean-- Oh, my God! Of course!
 * Wadsworth: So why shouldn't we get away with it? We'll stack the bodies in the cellar, lock it, leave quietly one at a time, and forget that any of this ever happened.
 * Mr. Green: And you'll just- just go on blackmailing us all.
 * Wadsworth: Of course. Why not?
 * Mr. Green: Well, I'll tell you why not.
 * [he draws a revolver, and shoots Wadsworth; Wadsworth drops his gun]
 * Wadsworth: Oh, good shot, Green! [slumps to the floor, reaches a hand inside his coat, and looks at the blood on his fingers] And very good. [He dies]

 * Mrs. White: Are you a cop?
 * Mr. Green: No, I'm a plant.
 * Ms. Scarlet: A plant? I thought men like you were usually called a fruit.
 * Mr. Green: Very funny. [displays a badge in his wallet] FBI. That call from J. Edgar Hoover was for me. [heads to the front door] I told you I didn't do it!
 * [he opens the front door and the police rush in]
 * Chief: All right, who done it?
 * [Mustard, White, Scarlet, Peacock and Plum all start arguing.]
 * Mr. Green: They all did it! But if you wanna know who killed Mr. Boddy, I did, in the hall, with the revolver. Okay, Chief, take 'em away. I'm gonna go home and sleep with my wife.

Taglines

 * It's Not Just A Game Anymore.
 * Murder, madness, mystery, and mayhem. More fun than you can imagine.
 * Seven Suspects, Six Weapons, Five Bodies and Three Endings.

Cast

 * Eileen Brennan - Mrs. Peacock
 * Tim Curry - Wadsworth
 * Madeline Kahn - Mrs. White
 * Christopher Lloyd - Prof. Plum
 * Michael McKean - Mr. Green
 * Martin Mull - Col. Mustard
 * Lesley Ann Warren - Miss Scarlet
 * Colleen Camp - Yvette
 * Lee Ving - Mr. Boddy

title: Clue (film)