Sam Rayburn Quotations

Dont try to go too fast. Learn your job. Dont ever talk until you know what youre talking about. If you want to get along, go along.

When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.

In my many years as a Representative in Congress it is my observation that the district that is best represented is the district that is wise enough to select a man of energy, intelligence, and integrity and reelects him year after year. A man of this type and character serves more efficiently and effectively the longer he is returned by his people.

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

Poverty only tries men's souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart.

I like power and I like to use it.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.

Any man who will cheat for you will cheat against you.

Readiness for opportunity makes for success. Opportunity often comes by accident; readiness never does.