Carl Hayden Quotes

Democratic U.S. Senator from Arizona

Carl Trumbull Hayden (October 2, 1877 – January 25, 1972) was an American politician and the first United States Senator to serve seven terms. Serving as Arizona's first Representative for eight terms before entering the Senate, Hayden set the record for longest-serving member of the United States Congress more than a decade before his retirement from politics. The longtime Dean of the United States Senate served as its president pro tempore and chairman of both its Rules and Administration and Appropriations committees. He was a member of the Democratic Party.

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Because Arizona has two things people will drive thousands of miles to see — Grand Canyon and the Petrified Forest. They can't get there without roads.

I'am a workhorse, not a showhorse

I'd call Congress together, have the House elect a new speaker, and then I'd resign and let him become president

Never give your enemies any more reason than they already have to go on hating you.