
“If they let me choose between you and the dog, I'll choose the dog.”
The Ballot or the Bullet (1964), Speech in Detroit, Michigan (12 April 1964)
“If they let me choose between you and the dog, I'll choose the dog.”
“If dogs talked, one of them would be president by now. Everybody likes dogs.”
Interview with PETA; as quoted in "T-Pain Teams Up With PETA To Remind Everyone To Treat Their Pets Like Family" https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/t-pain-teams-up-with-peta-to-remind-everyone-to-treat-their-pets-like-family-news.46218.html, HotNewHipHop.com (21 March 2018).
“People love dogs. You can never go wrong adding a dog to the story.”
Source: White Night
" Malcolm X: Make It Plain http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/malcolmx/filmmore/pt.html," from The American Experience, season 6, episode 6, PBS (first aired 26 January 1994)
Attributed
"Confession" in Complete Works of Jack London, Delphi Classics, 2013
Variant: Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.