This is the first time in my experience... that I ever heard of a Senator trying to discredit his own Government before the world.... Your telegram is not only not true and an insolent approach to a situation that should have been worked out between man and man - but it shows conclusively that you are not even fit to have a hand in the operation of the Government of the United States.

The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are you’ll do your best thinking that way.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

As you get older, you get tired of doing the same things over and over again, so you think Christmas has changed. It hasn't. It's you who has changed.

If you can't beat 'em, confuse 'em.