The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart..

Readiness for opportunity makes for success. Opportunity often comes by accident; readiness never does..

I like power and I like to use it..

Let the other fellow get the headlines. I'll take the laws..

Don't try to go too fast. Learn your job. Don't ever talk until you know what you're talking about... If you want to get along, go along..

Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions..

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is..

Don't ever talk until you know what you're talking about....

A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice..

If you want to get along, go along..

There are no degrees in honorableness. You either are or you aren't..

I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but gentlemen, these men are not in the race..

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said..

When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble..

When the concept of Social Security came before the House, every Republican but one voted against it. Had it not been for the Democrats, Social Secur….

They may be just as intelligent as you say. But I'd feel a helluva lot better if just one of them had ever run for sheriff..

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut..

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one..

In my many years as a Representative in Congress it is my observation that the district that is best represented is the district that is wise enough ….

Any man who will cheat for you will cheat against you..

There's no education in the second kick of a mule.