The U.S. Senate - an old scow which doesn't move very fast, but never sinks.

I am a man of principle, and one of my basic principles is flexibility.

The U.S. Senate - an old scow which doesn't move very fast, but never sinks.

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.

I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.

We have been through this biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again.

When I feel the heat, I see the light.