Country banks are more flexible in their lending policies than their city brethren are. Bert Lance Read Quote
The press aren’t willing to wait for whatever the truth is – the truth never catches up with the lie… Destroying people ought not to be a competitive business. Bert Lance Read Quote
In politics, they don’t want anything that deters whatever their goal is. When people get in the way of that, that’s when people get hurt – and sometimes destroyed. Bert Lance Read Quote
I devised the Bert Lance Toe Test then – you go out on the front porch of the house, turn ‘The Washington Post’ over with your big toe, and if your name’s above the fold, you know you’re not going to have a good day. Bert Lance Read Quote
If the house is on fire, and the fireman shows up, you don’t question his color or credentials. You don’t send him back to the firehouse and say, ‘Send somebody else.’ Bert Lance Read Quote
Folks are serious about three things: Their religion, their family and, most of all, their money. Bert Lance Read Quote
I guess it is ironical that I have a chance to say to Jesse Jackson, ‘You need to be mature. You need to be positive. You need to be bigger than the folks who are trying to tear you down.’ Bert Lance Read Quote
I did not want to be a source of diversion from the Mondale-Ferraro ticket. It appears no matter what I did or tried to do, that would not be the case. I came to the conclusion that it was in the best interest of all to stand aside. Bert Lance Read Quote
