The city governments of the United States are the worst in Christiandom - the most expensive, the most inefficient, and the most corrupt. - Robert A. Caro

With a note of sadness, Wicker wrote in 1983 that “the reverence, the childlike dependence, the willingness to follow where the President leads, the trust, are long gone — gone, surely, with Watergate, but gone before that.… After Lyndon Johnson, after the ugly war that consumed him, trust in ‘the President’ was tarnished forever.” That tarnishing revolutionized politics and government in the United States. The shredding of the delicate yet crucial fabric of credence and faith between the people of the United States and the man they had placed in the White House occurred during the presidency of Lyndon Johnson.

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)

Mrs. Roosevelt felt, was the fault of society; “a civilization which does not provide young people with a way to earn a living is pretty poor,