Said Hoover: “Nobody is actually starving. The hoboes, for example, are better fed than they have ever been. One hobo in New York got ten meals in on… - Robert A. Caro

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.

The farm work they hated was the only work they knew. Often, even the basic skills of plumbing or electricity or mechanical work were mysteries to them – as were the job discipline and the subtleties that children raised in the industrial world learn without thinking about them; starting work on time, working set hours, taking orders from strangers instead of their father, playing office politics.

Decades of the seniority rule had conferred influence in the Senate not on men who broke new ground but on men who were careful not to.