You cannot expect the guy who drove the car into the ditch to navigate it out of the ditch. You have to put a new driver in the seat. Im not saying the new driver is going to be any better, but we need a new driver. Kerry is the only choice. – John Mellencamp
I dont want to be a politician. I dont like politics. Its petty it fights dirty. – John Mellencamp
Do I think its OK to fight authority as long as youre only talking about the high school teacher? No. – John Mellencamp
I want to sell to people my own age, because thats the way I write songs. – John Mellencamp
The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor – all conductors are white – ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car. – Ray Stannard Baker