A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have had to invent one.

I would like to see ... an entirely different procedure which is that we vote on the budget and decide how much we are going to spend, first, the way any family does, and then fit our priorities into what we think we have to spend. Instead, what we do, is to do it incrementally, starting at the bottom, adding and adding and adding. ... Until we get the support of all the authorities in this House to decide, first, what we think this country can afford and then decide where the amount is going to be allocated, we will never have common sense in this House.

Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.

Economics is not a science, in the sense that a policy can be repeatedly applied under similar conditions and will repeatedly produce similar results.

What we do stems directly from what we believe.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology shows the futility of past efforts to make a lasting change in manners by an act of will or authority.