Ernest Frederick „Fritz“ Hollings war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker. Er gehörte der Demokratischen Partei an und war von 1959 bis 1963 Gouverneur von South Carolina und von 1966 bis 2005 Mitglied im Senat der Vereinigten Staaten. Wikipedia
“When E. F. Hollings talks, nobody listens.”
Alluding to the E. F. Hutton commercial of the 1980s, in reference to his unsuccessful presidential campaign in 1984. A sharp tongue can still draw victim's blood, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Connelley, Joel, February 3, 1986, December 8, 2009 http://www.seattlepi.com/archives/1986/8601030327.asp,
“You remind me of Hubert Humphrey. You talk too much”
To Senator Paul Wellstone (D-MN) http://archive.is/20120709180116/findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1141/is_4_39/ai_94596503
Interview by Bill Moyers, "Fritz Hollings on Making Government Work," http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07252008/profile3.html Bill Moyers Journal (2008-07-25)
