Howard Baker Quotes

The beginning of the decline of the Republic was the day they air-conditioned the Capitol.

You've got to guard against speaking more clearly than you think.

What did the president know, and when did he know it?

Eventually, somebody is going to be a hero, and somebody's going to be president. Not necessarily the same person.

It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.

In Washington I'm thought of as a conservative, but in Tennessee I'm thought of as a Bolshevik.

Listen more often than you speak.

The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.

Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.