Protectionism is somebody just admitting failure, when we can’t compete on a certain product, because labor’s cheaper somewhere else, we put in tariffs ... and they’re being cast in the rhetoric of a trade war. Well, a trade war is not going to be good for anybody.

Al Lewis

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Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I'd take them all to dinner. All runaways.

sunset friday kids

If anything I consider myself an anarchist. by Al Lewis

If anything I consider myself an anarchist.

anarchist ifs

But find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That's the uniqueness of all of us. That's it.

uniqueness way

I have an old brain but a terrific memory. by Al Lewis

I have an old brain but a terrific memory.

good-memories brain memories

My secret for success? I don't know what the hell success means. by Al Lewis

My secret for success? I don't know what the hell success means.

congratulations success mean

America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you kee... by Al Lewis

America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling.

politician struggle america

The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they weren't, they wouldn't be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.

strong class long

Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!

oscars bridges sleep

I'm more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you kn... by Al Lewis

I'm more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?

body important knows

I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself. by Al Lewis

I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.

enjoyed kids

As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others 'you failed,' you didn't fail.

failing opinion long

What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.

motivated mom mother

I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.

medicine radio years

The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world - right after the Civil War. The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America's ever had.

war country america

I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.

radio satisfaction needs

The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And... by Al Lewis

The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.

victory struggle long

Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.

struggle mother writing

I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers... by Al Lewis

I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

agriculture unions north-carolina

I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!

wall people thinking

I know who I am. I don't have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did. You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.

hey who-i-am thinking