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.

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.

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

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

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

Leadership must be established from the top down.