had gotten in trouble from talking too much. - Robert A. Caro

Democracy does not merely mean periodic elections. It means a government held accountable to the people between elections.

I have been unable to save much money in my life. I have been in politics, and in politics an honest man does not get rich.

-Sam Rayburn (whose savings at his death totaled $15,000)

Recalling his mother’s endless drudgery, (Senator) Richard (Russell) Jr. was to say that he was ten years old before he saw his mother asleep; previously, he had “thought that mothers never had to sleep.