Because she sat where she sat, we are now sitting in Congress, ... We are sitting in the Supreme Court. We are sitting as CEOs and heads of universities.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!

In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate.

It would really wake up the Congress and Senate. You can't just make laws against people and not expect repercussions.

All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals