Political Quotes

“I am not a lawyer, and I don't understand all the work that lawyers do. When I was growing up, my dad said a little knowledge of the law is dangerous. Get yourself a good lawyer and stay with him or her. That is what I have tried to do. I have been in the insurance business, and I understand that very well. How many times has an independent agent down in some small community--and I have done it on many occasions--been asked to make bids on a piece of property or on a fleet of trucks or liability, or whatever it might be, and the staff in that little agency work for hours, day and night, putting together a comprehensive bid. Lo and behold, we lose. That is part of the game. Then we get another bid. It may be on a county or on a city, and we work for days and into the nights putting together a comprehensive bid. And we lose. But lo and behold, one time we submit a comprehensive bid and what happens? We win. It makes us feel good. But then somebody comes along and says, ``Ford, you've made too much money.'' Well, I have lost 100 times and finally win one and they say, ``Ford, you've made too much money, you just can't do that.'' So they limit the amount of money I can make as an insurance agent. It is the same thing that happened yesterday. Ninety-eight percent of the farmers who have tobacco quotas voted to keep the farm program.”