Howard Coble

“When I came to Washington, I promised to serve, not to be served.”

“The folks back home are my employers, and I never forget that.”

“Some may say that I'm a dinosaur, and if I am, I'm a contented dinosaur.”

“I think the American people are pretty sharp. They'll know when they're being fed a line.”

“I've often said that if you have to be in Congress, you ought to be from a district like the 6th of North Carolina.”

“I'm not a rubber stamp for anybody. I'm a thinking man.”

“We put them in concentration camps. They were not combatants. They were citizens of the United States... some probably were intent on doing harm to us, just as some of these Arab-Americans are probably intent on doing harm to us.”

“A handshake still means something in my part of the country.”