«Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.»

«The artist I wanna be like is Michael Jackson. I'll get the house with the roller coaster and the rides and a disco, and I'll invite all my friends and just stay at home.»

«We [Michael Jackson and I] talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.»

«Yes, I heard my people singing!--in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews--and my soul was filled with their harmonies. Then, too, I heard these songs in the very sermons of my father, for in the Negro's speech there is much of the phrasing and rhythms of folk-song. The great, soaring gospels we love are merely sermons that are sung; and as we thrill to such gifted gospel singers as Mahalia Jackson, we hear the rhythmic eloquence of our preachers, so many of whom, like my father, are masters of poetic speech.»

«Who among us has not gazed at a painting of Jackson Pollack's and thought: What a piece of crap?»

«You want to see the boy next door?...(then) don't go see Michael Jackson, because he ain't the boy next door.»

«This feeling has been impressed my heart by the instruction and example of the great man [Andrew Jackson] whom when I was a boy, I followed as a soldier.»

«We may see Michael Jackson's baby before we know the final outcome of this race for the House of Representatives tonight.»

«The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson»

«Vice President Cheney is also on vacation. He's in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. What better place for a guy who has had 4 heart attacks than a place with thin air, rugged hiking and all-beef dinners? Why don't they get some snow for him to shovel while he's out there, too?»