No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.

You're in there with me. Personally.

There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. Even though we never like it, and even though we wish they didn't write it, and even though we disapprove, there isn't any doubt that we could not do the job at all in a free society without a very, very active press.

Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder

Struggle for freedom. Where people are denied the right of choice, recourse to such struggle is the only means of achieving their liberties.