Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations, can never effect a reform.
Government Quotes
No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
Precisely one year ago today, on July 14, 1963, I warned that the Republican Party is in real danger of subversion by a radical, well-financed, highly disciplined majority.
As President Eisenhower said only two hours ago from this very rostrum, the Republican Party should reject extremism from either the left or the right.
Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
The maintenance of a spirit of mutual self-help through voluntary giving, through the responsibility of local government, is of infinite importance to the future of America. Everyone who aids to the full extent of his ability is giving support to the very foundations of our democracy.
The depression has been deepened by events from abroad which are beyond the control either of our citizens or our Government. Although it is but a passing incident in our national life, we must meet the consequences in unemployment which arise from it with that completeness of effort and that courage and spirit for which […]
The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded. You have a right, therefore, to expect your agents in every department to regard strictly the limits imposed upon them by the Constitution of the United States.
The American people elect leaders to address the issues facing our country, not to cower behind arcane parliamentary procedure.
I spent eight years working as Obama’s quarterback, working through the Senate to get the Affordable Care Act passed. It’s too bad there are efforts to weaken it, but it’s still here.
