Some say he's cold as ice.
His ice is the kind that freezes to what he likes.

Mort's a gentleman if we have one in Fraser County.

If you think you're chasin' one of these blue jeans politicians you read about in comic papers you're hitting the wrong trail, son.

Mort can eat with a fork without appearin' self-conscious.

Good Lord, boy, if you can say these other fellows in Indiana politics have brains, you got to say that Mort Bassett has _intellect_.