I've had the school of hard knocks, and I've worked my way up to be the governor of this great state of Connecticut.
— William O'Neill
The 1930s had been a time of tremendous economic distress. And the unemployment rate was enormously high by any historic standard.
I've never professed to be an intellectual. I don't try to be.
It's kind of a terrible irony, in a way, that the solution to America's problems was World War II.
Meeting all walks of life, it broadened your horizons, let's say that.