You can get an awful lot of good done in the world if you're willing to let someone else take the credit for it. - Robert A. Caro

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)

He won that election in the byways,” Bill Deason says. Ava Cox says: “That’s what made Lyndon Johnson be elected the first time.… He told them: ‘I know what you people are up against. Because I’m one of you people.’ And it wasn’t the people of the cities who elected him, but it was the people from the forks of the creeks.” That was indeed the reason he won — and the reason no politician had thought he could win. The polls had not shown his strength at the forks of the creeks, for no poll bothered with the people at the forks of the creeks, as no candidate visited them. But Lyndon Johnson had visited these people. And they had sent him to Congress. N

He took the trolley instead of the bus because it was smoother and he could read on it.