Stated on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in response to a question on whether he would had defeated New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg if he had run in the 2009 mayoral election (February 4, 2010)
“He beat him like a rented mule.”
Quoted in Bob Smizik, Tales from the Pittsburgh Penguins (2006). Lange credited a stockbroker with saying the phrase to him when Lange asked him how his day was.
Noted as a phrase closely associated with Lange, as quoted in Shelly Anderson, "Lange signs 1-year Penguins radio deal", http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07208/804828-61.stm Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (2007-07-27)
“If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent Texas and live in Hell…”
http://the-american-catholic.com/2010/04/30/sheridan-hell-and-texas/
Many newspapers stated that he had said this, and later on in his life he repeated it in variations.
“Profit, rent, and interest would be no more.”
Source: Why We Fail as Christians (1919), p. 74-75
Context: Associated production would be rendered impossible. Profit, rent, and interest would be no more. There would be no diversified division of labor. Cities and industrial communities would dwindle and disappear. Society as a whole would return... to the actual poverty of an agricultural and handicraft age. A community of Indians in America before the invasion of the whites had as much social organization as Tolstoy seems to have felt necessary for mankind. "The Anarchists are right in everything..." he writes, except "only in thinking that Anarchy can be instituted by a revolution." The entire world would be broken into atoms—each an individualist standing alone.
Source: The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1821) (Third Edition), Chapter XXXII, Malthus on Rent, p. 273
“"[…] is being "whipped like a government mule!" (usually said when someone is taking a beating)”
Commentary Quotes
Prayer traditionally attributed to St. Brigit, as quoted in Prayers of the Saints: An Inspired Collection of Holy Wisdom (1996), by Woodeene Koenig-Bricker, p. 77
“I will not let you in.
I face towards the wind.
I change into the Mule.”
Song lyrics, The Dreaming (1982)
