FastSaying

As a member of Congress, I believe Congress must provide oversight of actions by the Executive Branch as our system of checks and balances requires.


Charles B. Rangel

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Congress must assert its proper role and seek the truth. A government that fails to honor its own la...
CAROLINE FREDRICKSON I think one of the fundamental roles of Congress is to exercise oversight of the executive branch. A...
CAROLINE FREDRICKSON I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and...
BOB WOODWARD Our government is based upon a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances. The actions...
CAROLINE FREDRICKSON In simple terms, we lobby Congress and the executive branch to educate and inform about the impact o...
JOHN ENGLER Our carefully constructed system of checks and balances is being negated by the rise of a fourth bra...
JONATHAN TURLEY Furthermore, the managerial ethos of parliamentary reformism is in direct tension with important val...
THOMAS O. SARGENTICH Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congr...
TOM RICE Ninety-five of the 105 recommendations are ones that the executive branch can implement, and we have...
SPENCER ABRAHAM As a member of Congress, and a parent, I understand the importance of ensuring that families are abl...
JON PORTER In Liberia there has always been a very strong executive branch that has not had effective checks an...
DONALD BOOTH The founders established a government of checks and balances so nobody could take advantage. As for ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must chec...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ When you're elected to Congress, you take a vow to uphold the Constitution and its system of che...
CHELLIE PINGREE In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stri...
DENNIS CARDOZA The War Powers Act requires presidents to seek the consent of the American people, through their rep...
CHARLES B. RANGEL The Congress, the executive branch, and our fellow citizens have done an enormous amount to support ...
DAVID PETRAEUS As members of Congress, we may disagree with the administration's position on foreign policy mat...
MARCIA FUDGE 108 members of congress have signed onto my Resolution of No Confidence in Attorney General Holder a...
PAUL GOSAR Earmarks are almost always inserted by a member of Congress without any notice to other members, and...
MARSHA BLACKBURN Maintaining checks and balances on the power of the Judiciary Branch and the other two branches is v...
TODD TIAHRT When conducted with proper preparation, and in a focused and professional manner, oversight of execu...
BOB BARR Marching with over a million women in support of our reproductive rights was one of the most empower...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE As the immigration debate continues, we encourage member of Congress to pass comprehensive reform th...
RANDEL JOHNSON I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON He is entitled to speak as a member of the Congress Working Committee. It doesn't mean he is speakin...
ABHISHEK SINGHVI He is entitled to speak as a member of the Congress Working Committee. It doesn't mean he is speakin...
ABHISHEK MANU SINGHVI I know that Jim Gibbons as governor of Nevada will represent all the best of this state. I really be...
JACK KEMP We need a full accounting of the Bush administration's spending on advertising, PR, and fake news. I...
CRAIG AARON The goals of the city coincide with my goals as a member of Congress. That is to shrink government a...
JAY VAVRICEK It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of ...
BARNEY FRANK When Congress exercises the powers delegated to it by the Constitution, it may impose affirmative ob...
DAVID SOUTER Obama is as likely to be impeached as he is to be installed as the next pontiff. And I say that as s...
JONATHAN TURLEY As a member of Congress, I am part of a large group of elected officials who remain clear-eyed about...
MIKE POMPEO My entire family has been with the Congress right from the time of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Congress...
SANJAY DUTT will be a significantly diminished member of Congress.
ELLEN MILLER The people have spoken through the more than 400 resolutions, calling for individualized suspicion a...
CHIP PITTS I am proud to be a member of the Congress of the United States.
ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, JR. The fundamental idea is that through the separation of powers and checks and balances, different voi...
THOMAS O. SARGENTICH The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances...
ROY MOORE There is no part of the executive branch that more exists on the outer edge of executive prerogative...
MICHAEL HAYDEN There was no effective oversight of the investment manager and no effective control or checks on his...
PETER BRESNAN This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.
GRACIE ALLEN This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.
GRACIE ALLEN Whether it's the courts or regional offices of executive agencies, members of Congress want some con...
DAVID LEWIS I am running to fix the economy, restore the constitutional system of checks and balances and to end...
DAVE BRAT Members of Congress must live according to the same laws as everyone else.
BOBBY JINDAL This department's system of checks and balances has corrected this ongoing mistake and prevented its...
JIM ZITO Our mission as set forth by the Congress is a critical one.
BEN BERNANKE We are quite confident the system has sufficient checks and balances.
LLOYD AXWORTHY Our democratic system relies on transparency and candor from the executive, and so far, we have seen...
CAROLINE FREDRICKSON This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.
GRACIE ALLEN This is a matter of principle. It's about our right to know the truth about why our loved ones were ...
ALICE HOGLAN It has clearly been a pattern in the past few months of Congress intensifying its efforts of looking...
JULIAN ZELIZER I believe that in a case such as this, the legislative branch, the executive branch, ought to err on...
JEB BUSH In turning now to the principle of dialogue underlying the Constitution's structure, it is important...
THOMAS O. SARGENTICH the series of checks and balances that exemplify the genius of our founding fathers.
HENRY HYDE The Internet interprets the US Congress as system damage and routes around it.
JEANNE DEVOTO As a regent, I hope to bring that important perspective of a typical family visitor in combination w...
XAVIER BECERRA We believe a seismic change in superannuation administration is about to occur as choice takes hold ...
ALAN SCHOENHEIMER However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, C...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER In 2005, I was the first member of Congress to introduce legislation calling for an immediate withdr...
JIM MCGOVERN As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.
VINCE MCMAHON President Obama is in violation of Section 3 of Article II of the Constitution by refusing to enforc...
SCOTT GARRETT There are checks and balances and broad separation of powers under the Constitution. Each organ of t...
P. SATHASIVAM Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself
MARK TWAIN Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
MARK TWAIN Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
MARK TWAIN I believe this modification is warranted so as to inform the Congress and the public of any involvem...
ORRIN HATCH Congress has a duty to taxpayers to make informed decisions when carrying out its legislative, appro...
DANIEL AKAKA What we have here is a checks-and-balances system. Ozzie says whatever he wants. And Kenny is the vo...
CHRIS WIDGER Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
BRIAN JACQUES In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system,
non-citizens face an executiv...
WILLIAM SAFIRE I'm running for Congress to reverse Obama's big government policies, to be faithful to the p...
RON DESANTIS Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
MARK TWAIN As members of Congress, we believe it is our obligation to forward specific and credible information...
BILLY TAUZIN Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and ...
STEVE ALLEN Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state.
DEAN RUSK As far as I can tell 15 pages with quotes, it's a lot of...
DEYTH BANGER I believe that Congress will and must act before then to renew its objections to multiple and discri...
JOHN MCCAIN In 1866, Congress enforced the abolition of slavery by passing a Civil Rights Act, prohibiting actio...
RICHARD ROTHSTEIN All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.
JOHN MORTIMER The sovereign power of the people, exercised through their representatives in Congress, with the con...
THADDEUS STEVENS The promise I've tried to honor my entire career, that the rule of law and the design of the fou...
JAMES COMEY When it imposes expensive regulatory mandates on the private sector, Congress often acts on the basi...
CASS SUNSTEIN The president has such mastery of all of the tools of disaster relief. It's a military effort, Congr...
DICK MORRIS In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in th...
LINCOLN CHAFEE Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel ...
NORM DICKS Congress is not perceived as a positive right now. You're basically running against Congress in stea...
JOHN NIENSTEDT Part of what a union provides is what I would call checks and balances.
ROBIN LASH The middle ground in Congress has all but disappeared. The founders intended competing principles an...
DONNA BRAZILE Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak ou...
FRANCINE BUSBY Joe Lanier adds considerable legislative expertise and political savvy to an already formidable team...
JOSEPH CANNON Her eldest is a member of the United States Congress, who has the privilege of standing before you a...
JAMES ROGAN The board is insulated in a wide range from any control from presidential oversight, from Congress.
MALLORY FACTOR The founders had a strong distrust for centralized power in a federal government. So they created a ...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Congress shall also create a tax code weighing more than the combined poundage of the largest member...
DAVE BARRY We believe a seismic change in superannuation administration is about to occur as choice takes hold ...
ALAN SCHOENHEIMER People assume that the executive branch has more power than it actually has. Only the legislative br...
MICHAEL DELL

More Charles B. Rangel

I still remember March 31, 1981, when a deeply disturbed John Hinckley Jr. took aim at President Ron...
CHARLES B. RANGEL Since the Korean War, U.S. and South Korea have established an enduring friendship with shared inter...
CHARLES B. RANGEL By requiring all 30 million Americans age 18 to 25 to perform two years of national service, in the ...
CHARLES B. RANGEL I think that, as Americans, we should never forget that when we tamper with freedom of speech, it is...
CHARLES B. RANGEL As a Korean War Veteran, I know too well the troubling nature of war. This is why I will always supp...
CHARLES B. RANGEL Since most American students cannot simply pay their full tuition out of pocket, financing a college...
CHARLES B. RANGEL As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in...
CHARLES B. RANGEL Dr. King's famous 'I Have a Dream' speech was delivered at 'The March on Washington ...
CHARLES B. RANGEL No one looks forward to a recount.
CHARLES B. RANGEL A greater tax deduction for students is not a handout. On the contrary, it helps those who are willi...
CHARLES B. RANGEL It's morally wrong, and economically self-defeating, that so much wealth flows upwards towards t...
CHARLES B. RANGEL Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable caree...
CHARLES B. RANGEL Our immigration policy should be driven by what is in the best interest of this great country and th...
CHARLES B. RANGEL The promise of the American Dream requires that we are all provided an equal opportunity to particip...
CHARLES B. RANGEL So many deaths could be prevented if measures were implemented to expand background checks and keep ...
CHARLES B. RANGEL Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the f...
CHARLES B. RANGEL No American should live in fear of going to work or sending their kids to school. Let's end the ...
CHARLES B. RANGEL The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and...
CHARLES B. RANGEL A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.
CHARLES B. RANGEL Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.
CHARLES B. RANGEL Immigrants have faced huge obstacles to achieving the American Dream, yet have persevered to overcom...
CHARLES B. RANGEL The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sough...
CHARLES B. RANGEL Honoring the sacrifices many have made for our country in the name of freedom and democracy is the v...
CHARLES B. RANGEL Thousands of people may have been killed by hurricane Katrina and many more could die in its afterma...
CHARLES B. RANGEL Respecting our veterans includes providing them the ways and means they so desperately need to reint...
CHARLES B. RANGEL America's legacy has been crafted by generations of hard-working men and women who moved to the ...
CHARLES B. RANGEL I am struck by how casually we as a nation react to the carnage in Iraq.
CHARLES B. RANGEL We all want a simpler code, but tax reform is about much more. It is about ensuring that everyone pa...
CHARLES B. RANGEL As a veteran, I know firsthand the satisfaction there is in defending the democracy you so strongly ...
CHARLES B. RANGEL I was proud to march beside some of the most notable Civil Rights activists, such as the Rev. Dr. Ma...
CHARLES B. RANGEL We love the ability of the people to influence the actions of decision-makers, of lawmakers and pres...
CHARLES B. RANGEL I proudly served in the United States Army during the Korean War as an artillery operations speciali...
CHARLES B. RANGEL I am a firm believer that upon release, ex-offenders should be afforded a second chance to become pr...
CHARLES B. RANGEL Since the enactment of the War Powers Act in 1973, which I supported then and support now, Congress ...
CHARLES B. RANGEL In the battle of Kunu-ri, more than 5,000 American soldiers were killed, wounded or taken as prisone...
CHARLES B. RANGEL Since we replaced the compulsory military draft with an all-volunteer force in 1973, our nation has ...
CHARLES B. RANGEL Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felon...
CHARLES B. RANGEL I would like to believe he's sick rather than just mean and evil.
CHARLES B. RANGEL Supporting mental wellness is crucial to any goal of decreasing gun violence in America.
CHARLES B. RANGEL As a high school dropout, I understand the value of education: A second chance at obtaining my high ...
CHARLES B. RANGEL As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic just...
CHARLES B. RANGEL Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse since Aristide's removal, and continue to de...
CHARLES B. RANGEL Since January 2003, at the height of the debate on the possible unilateral strike against Iraq, I ha...
CHARLES B. RANGEL When thousands of men and women work full time but need food stamps to put food on their tables, whe...
CHARLES B. RANGEL The War Powers Act requires presidents to seek the consent of the American people, through their rep...
CHARLES B. RANGEL The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention.
CHARLES B. RANGEL Under Saddam Hussein, the nation of Iraq possessed and used chemical weapons against both their own ...
CHARLES B. RANGEL If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should b...
CHARLES B. RANGEL To honor the legacy of veterans and the democratic principles they fought for, I am glad that I intr...
CHARLES B. RANGEL What are we Democrats fighting for? We are not fighting for salvation and going to heaven. But we ar...
CHARLES B. RANGEL In various fields, such as science, technology, sports, business and the arts, immigrants enrich our...
CHARLES B. RANGEL At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagm...
CHARLES B. RANGEL Manufactured scandals prohibit public servants from doing the job they were elected or appointed to ...
CHARLES B. RANGEL The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the we...
CHARLES B. RANGEL We must urge a national dialogue on better methods of curbing preventable gun violence, and address ...
CHARLES B. RANGEL Living in New York City, I am reminded by the Statue of Liberty that the United States of America ha...
CHARLES B. RANGEL I think America and the world wants us to show the outrage not by rhetoric, but by taking action,
CHARLES RANGEL From a high-tech point of view, an agriculture point of view, a goods-and-services point of view, a ...
CHARLES RANGEL I know the Republicans want to have a political gimmick to have on Valentine's day, and that's what ...
CHARLES RANGEL And yet, Republicans have held hostage every penny of relief until the Senate passes their special i...
CHARLES RANGEL The whole Republican rationale for passing such a big tax cut is that we needed to send the surpluse...
CHARLES RANGEL We've opened up our doors to Mexico, Central and South America, to all of Asia, and here is the rich...
CHARLES RANGEL This little kid who was found abandoned in the ocean brought a face to the people who were in Miami ...
CHARLES RANGEL I'm not certain that voters are sophisticated enough to see this as Republican wrongdoing rather tha...
CHARLES RANGEL George Bush is our Bull Connor,
CHARLES RANGEL I think it's wrong, whether it's President Clinton or President Bush, to take this extraordinary act...
CHARLES RANGEL quickly conceived and hastily thrown together.
CHARLES RANGEL The mayor should really stop drinking,
CHARLES RANGEL You can no longer raise money and support those people in Washington and say you're not one of them,...
CHARLES RANGEL This is our business, ... At the end of the day, these are our kids.
CHARLES RANGEL I truly believe that there's a little bit of Rosa Parks in all Americans who have the courage to say...
CHARLES RANGEL Essentially, they've targeted the most vulnerable in our communities -- children, the aged, the blin...
CHARLES RANGEL We would like to know which of the president's recommendation's he would like to drop, ... We only h...
CHARLES RANGEL It's not 'spic' or 'nigger' any more. They say 'let's cut taxes.'
CHARLES RANGEL The Republicans have sequestered themselves in a room in order to piece together a political bill th...
CHARLES RANGEL It's impossible for us to forecast what's going to happen ten years from now and make a decision tod...
CHARLES RANGEL Clearly everyone wants a tax cut but you can't have a tax cut for a surplus that you don't have,
CHARLES RANGEL The more light that shines on this, the longer it is going to take, ... There are some responsible R...
CHARLES RANGEL could have been done in a little office somewhere.
CHARLES RANGEL It's no profile in courage for us to say you are now able to borrow money from your pension fund and...
CHARLES RANGEL left too many questions unanswered when it comes to Social Security ... [He] says he wants an open r...
CHARLES RANGEL The president is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the we...
CHARLES RANGEL get them out of the way.
CHARLES RANGEL Watch Freddy Ferrer and remember this election; it's not only going to be an election for our city, ...
CHARLES RANGEL Her biggest asset is her greatest liability: She's not one of the boys in the old boy's network - wh...
CHARLES RANGEL If the president wants to get serious, he will convene a true summit with leaders from both parties,...
CHARLES RANGEL If Giuliani thought Hillary Clinton was a candidate, he'd be looking for a job,
CHARLES RANGEL We don't windsurf in Harlem.
CHARLES RANGEL isn't awake enough to know what's going on.
CHARLES RANGEL Sometimes President Uribe is hit with the impact that some facts produce in the public arena. And th...
ALFREDO RANGEL I not only think he will be re-elected, but he's going to win in the first round. I don't see any ca...
ALFREDO RANGEL It has generated an environment where to talk badly about Uribe is seen as being unpatriotic, sort o...
ALFREDO RANGEL He confronts problems very directly and in direct, colloquial language. He has a great capacity for ...
ALFREDO RANGEL You can put together powerful legal arguments both for and against this, so in the end, it's a polit...
ALFREDO RANGEL I want to thank you for your investment in this part of town. It's going to help a lot.
BEN RANGEL This is not a casino now. You are establishing a casino.
BEN RANGEL We don't know if there's enough space.
BEN RANGEL What you have just witnessed is the official breakdown of bipartisanship,
CHARLIE RANGEL [Said Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California,] Mr. Rumsfeld has been engaged in a coverup from the start on...
CHARLIE RANGEL George Bush is our 'Bull' Connor, ... And if that doesn't get to you, nothing will be able to get to...
CHARLIE RANGEL If the weapons are there and we know they're there, then my God, let's go get the weapons and destro...
CHARLIE RANGEL attempting to play both the race and the class-warfare cards.
CHARLIE RANGEL While we wait for good things to happen for ourselves, we can do good things for other people.
DAVID RANGEL Realise that the love within is the infinite love and it is all that is.
ANA RANGEL I just hope that the president and the Republican leaders distance themselves from this and find som...
CHARLIE RANGEL believe that our government has an obligation to take care of its people.
CHARLIE RANGEL and you're poor in this country, it's not an inconvenience. It's a death sentence.
CHARLIE RANGEL Eating a huge home cooked Christmas dinner was his personal favorite. Evan would look around after e...
DAVID RANGEL It took about a week to pull the proposal together. We were trying to get everything out at the same...
JANET RANGEL Something that I believe is a cool thing is that all the kids that participate are all winners. They...
JANET RANGEL His hands were tingling and he was sweating under falling snowflakes.
DAVID RANGEL Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.
CHARLES B. ROUSS Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our...
CHARLES B. JOHNSON Writing is my refuge. It's where I go. It's where I find that integrity I have.
CHARLES B. JOHNSON The ebb and flow of will is like the movements of the tides... if we cease our vain struggles and la...
CHARLES B. NEWCOMB Let us move on, and step out boldly, though it be into the night, and we can scarcely see the way.
CHARLES B. NEWCOMB If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass our doors, we are at least responsible for thos...
CHARLES B. NEWCOMB The moment will arrive when you are comfortable with who you are, and what you are– bald or old or...
CHARLES B. HANDY Before, they were openly calling for Chavez's overthrow. Now, the call is to assassinate him,
JOSE VICENTE RANGEL If he said that, he's an idiot, ... They can do whatever they want here, say whatever they want, inc...
JOSE VICENTE RANGEL It's never enough, given the magnitude of the tragedy, solidarity is never enough,
JOSE VICENTE RANGEL Past tragedies have given people an opportunity to prosper. Now we face the challenge of ensuring al...
JOSE VICENTE RANGEL The ball is in the U.S. court after this criminal statement by a citizen of that country, ... It's h...
JOSE VICENTE RANGEL the best relations with the United States.
JOSE VICENTE RANGEL We need international help,
JOSE VICENTE RANGEL And is Saudi Arabia a democracy, or Kuwait?
JOSE VICENTE RANGEL I think it's strange that such a pragmatic country ... is reacting this way to a perfectly serious a...
JOSE VICENTE RANGEL Until now everything has depended on Mexico, they took the initiative to attack President Chavez and...
JOSE VICENTE RANGEL I don't see why the United States has to get involved in this issue, ... It is a decision involving ...
JOSE VICENTE RANGEL We have intelligence reports that some of them are CIA, ... The president's decision was based on re...
JOSE VICENTE RANGEL I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
B. B. KING I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided ...
B. B. KING I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on ...
B. B. KING I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown o...
B. B. KING Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high sc...
B. B. KING Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: A...
B. B. KING I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are Go...
B. B. KING The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit asha...
B. B. KING My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w...
B. B. KING Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I&...
B. B. KING I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, b...
B. B. KING Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you...
B. B. KING Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
B. B. KING I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wa...
B. B. KING Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's...
B. B. KING I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
B. B. KING The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
B. B. KING Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. KING If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me...
B. B. KING Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
B. B. KING People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never di...
B. B. KING We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. Wh...
B. B. KING If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary ...
B. B. WARFIELD I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I u...
B. B. KING Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
B. B. KING I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Er...
B. B. KING I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, an...
B. B. KING I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never th...
B. B. KING The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. KING When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are...
B. B. KING I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in ...
B. B. KING I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
B. B. KING 'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thoug...
B. B. KING If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything ...
B. B. KING I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie [Ray Vaughan] missed on bo...
B. B. KING When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on sta...
B. B. KING I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
B. B. KING I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
B. B. KING I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music...
B. B. KING My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucil...
B. B. KING I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big...
B. B. KING I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played,...
B. B. KING The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
B. B. KING The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING I got a chance to ride today on a very nice bus and from my window I can see how beautiful this coun...
B. B. KING My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger p...
B. B. KING Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'c...
B. B. KING Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here...
B. B. KING I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist,...
B. B. KING As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one ha...
B. B. KING I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always o...
B. B. KING We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING I think the clock is ticking, yes. In fact, I know it is. Frank Sinatra sang about the September of ...
B. B. KING When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. P...
B. B. KING Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'...
B. B. KING When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So ...
B. B. KING In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caug...
B. B. KING It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asl...
B. B. KING I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two...
B. B. KING I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her t...
B. B. KING Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then...
B. B. KING I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that ...
B. B. KING I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking ...
B. B. KING You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you...
B. B. KING I've been a loner all the time throughout my life... I haven't been the best father... Many ...
B. B. KING Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but ...
B. B. KING I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unle...
B. B. KING