Charles Mathias Quotations

I cannot help but wonder whether, by continuing and expanding the school lunch program, we aren't witnessing, if not encouraging, the slow demise of yet another American tradition: the brown bag. Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links child to home.

Most of us are honest all the time, and all of us are honest most of the time.

The brown bag, of course, had its imperfections. While some kids carried roast beef sandwiches, others had peanut butter. I have no way of knowing if all of those brown bags contained 'nutritionally adequate diets.' But I do know that those brown bags and those lunch pails symbolized parental love and responsibility.

People tend to want to follow the beaten path. The difficulty is that the beaten path doesn't seem to be leading anywhere.

We desegregated that opera house and made it possible for people to sit anywhere,

I think that's why we're having these hearings to establish the record that there is a need (to renew these provisions), ... I think the record will speak for itself.

The Voting Rights Act was really the whole core of the civil rights movement. It made a tremendous improvement, ... There was a new recognition of black citizenship.