Brown: So are you going to run for governor?
Barkley: I plan on it in 2014.
Brown: You are serious.
Barkley: I am, I can’t screw up Alabama.
Brown: There is no place to go but up in your view?
Barkley: We are number 48 in everything and Arkansas and Mississippi aren’t going anywhere.

OUCH!!!!

And also this pearl (emphasis mine):

Barkley: I know that, but this thing didn’t start with him. It started with President Bush and these gifts to rich people like myself — all these tax cuts and things like that. That’s my biggest problem. Uh listen, John McCain, you gotta respect anybody who goes to war. But these Republicans who ran this economy into the ground. We’ve got to end the war in Iraq and we got to stop giving rich people like myself and people who run big companies tax breaks. We’ve got to do that.

Wonder if the casinos will give him gifts and tax breaks.

UPDATE (10/28/08, 4:20pm): Reader Steve clued me into this one, which is so far over the line it’s astounding.

In discussing ways in which the Knicks should be improved this season, Barkley said, “I think they have a better coach. This coach probably won’t try to kill himself.”