“I can't screw up Alabama… We are number 48 in everything and Arkansas and Mississippi aren't going anywhere.”

—  Charles Barkley

About running for governor of Alabama, on Campbell Brown, CNN, October 27, 2008 http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/27/brown.barkley/index.html.

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