“If hooking a car battery up to a monkey's brain will help find the cure for AIDS and save somebody's life, I have two things to say … the red is positive and the black is negative.”

—  Nick DiPaolo

Attributed by [Mikkelson, Barbara and David P., 1 November 2004, http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/bechtol.asp, "T. Bubba Bechtol", Urban Legends Reference Pages, Snopes.com, 2007-04-25]
Possibly quoted earlier in [Lois, Thomas, Comedian's Down-Home Style Attracts Audience, Knoxville News-Sentinel, S12, 21 April 1999]

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