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Rayburn Quotes By Sam Rayburn

Dont try to go too fast. Learn your job. Dont ever talk until you know what youre talking about. If you want to get along, go along. — Sam Rayburn

Rayburn Quotes By Sam Rayburn

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

Rayburn Quotes By Mary J. Macleod

at intervals between work schedules the next day. Everyone professed to be delighted with the goods and the only thing that we seemed not to have done was complete our own shopping! The next time we went to Inverness, once again Angus had been told and rang to say would we pick something up for him. He didn't say what it was. When we arrived at his store, we were confronted by a Rayburn! He was quite upset when we refused to subject our backs and our elderly — Mary J. Macleod

Rayburn Quotes By Sam Rayburn

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. — Sam Rayburn

Rayburn Quotes By Sam Rayburn

If you want to get along, go along. — Sam Rayburn

Rayburn Quotes By Sam Rayburn

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 to select a man of energy, intelligence, and integrity and reelects him year after year. A man of this type and character serves more efficiently and effectively the longer he is returned by his people. — Sam Rayburn

Rayburn Quotes By Gregg Harper

Trying to find my way around the Rayburn building is always a challenge. Combining my poor sense of direction with a confusing design is not good. — Gregg Harper

Rayburn Quotes By Sam Rayburn

Poverty only tries men's souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart. — Sam Rayburn

Rayburn Quotes By Sam Rayburn

Son, if you can't take their money, drink their whiskey, screw their women, and then vote against 'em, you don't deserve to be here. — Sam Rayburn

Rayburn Quotes By Robert A. Caro

Sam Rayburn on LBJ's recuperation from his heart attack: It would kill him if he relaxed. — Robert A. Caro

Rayburn Quotes By Sam Rayburn

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 Security would never have passed, and our older people would not have this great support that our people provide. It has been my experience that Democrats generally vote to protect the people, while Republicans seem to try to protect the interests of big business. — Sam Rayburn

Rayburn Quotes By Robert A. Caro

No southerner had been elected President for more than a century, and it was a bitter article of faith among southern politicians that no southerner would be elected President in any foreseeable future; when members of the House of Representatives gave their Speaker, Sam Rayburn, ruler of the House for more than two decades, a limousine as a present, attached to the back of the front seat was a plaque that read 'To Our Beloved Sam Rayburn - Who Would Have Been President If He Had Come From Any Place but the South. — Robert A. Caro

Rayburn Quotes By Sam Rayburn

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too. — Sam Rayburn

Rayburn Quotes By Sam Rayburn

Don't ever talk until you know what you are talking about. — Sam Rayburn

Rayburn Quotes By Sam Rayburn

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

Rayburn Quotes By Sam Rayburn

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

Rayburn Quotes By Sam Rayburn

There's no education in the second kick of a mule — Sam Rayburn

Rayburn Quotes By Sam Rayburn

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

Rayburn Quotes By Sam Rayburn

A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice. — Sam Rayburn

Rayburn Quotes By Sam Rayburn

A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one. — Sam Rayburn

Rayburn Quotes By Sam Rayburn

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

Rayburn Quotes By Sam Rayburn

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

Rayburn Quotes By Robert A. Caro

The author describes Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn as seldom at ease without a gavel in his hand. — Robert A. Caro

Rayburn Quotes By Sam Rayburn

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. — Sam Rayburn

Rayburn Quotes By Sam Rayburn

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

Rayburn Quotes By Sam Rayburn

I like power and I like to use it. — Sam Rayburn

Rayburn Quotes By Sam Rayburn

Any man who will cheat for you will cheat against you. — Sam Rayburn

Rayburn Quotes By Sam Rayburn

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

Rayburn Quotes By Tricia Rayburn

And then you run. Because the only thing worse than her being gone is that you're still here. — Tricia Rayburn

Rayburn Quotes By Sam Rayburn

Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time. — Sam Rayburn

Rayburn Quotes By Sam Rayburn

Any jackass can kick down a barn. It takes a carpenter to build on. — Sam Rayburn

Rayburn Quotes By Sam Rayburn

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

Rayburn Quotes By David Halberstam

Among those dazzled by the Administration team was Vice-President Lyndon Johnson. After attending his first Cabinet meeting he went back to his mentor Sam Rayburn and told him with great enthusiasm how extraordinary they were, each brighter than the next, and that the smartest of them all was that fellow with the Stacomb on his hair from the Ford Motor Company, McNamara. "Well, Lyndon," Mister Sam answered, "you may be right and they may be every bit as intelligent as you say, but I'd feel a whole lot better about them if just one of them had run for sheriff once." It is my favorite story in the book, for it underlines the weakness of the Kennedy team, the difference between intelligence and wisdom, between the abstract quickness and verbal fluency which the team exuded, and the true wisdom, which is the product of hard-won, often bitter experience. Wisdom for a few of them came after Vietnam. — David Halberstam