"My mama didn't raise no idiot," he joked on Capitol Hill last week.

Her mama might have raised a fool, to be here in the first place, but that didn't mean she had to be stupid about it.

"But this is how my mama raised me."

Her mama had raised her to be a good girl.

He may be little more than a hobo on the road, but his mama didn't raise no fools, thank you oh so very much.

My mama didn't raise me to be no cook for white sailors.

I may've been a little naive back then," she said, "but my mama didn't raise no fool.

My mama raised herself a gopher, he thought, and he had to grin despite his weariness.

He added, "My mama didn't raise no fools."