Sam Rayburn on LBJ's recuperation from his heart attack: "It would kill him if he relaxed.

People who sneer at a half a loaf of bread have never been hungry." George Reedy

The air of compromise is rarely appreciated fully by men of principle. C. Vann Woodward

With Johnson, you never quite knew if he was out to lift your heart or your wallet. Roy Wilkins

He is not the leader of great causes, but the broker of little ones.

The breath of life of the Senate is, of course, continuity,

their anxiety, justified or not, was genuine,

(LBJ) had what a journalist calls “a genius for analogy”— made the point unforgettably, in dialect, in the rhythmic cadences of a great storyteller. Master of the senate

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

That speech (Daniel Webster's) “raised the idea of Union above contract or expediency and enshrined it in the American heart.

its size, the House was an environment in which, as one observer put it, members “could be dealt with only in bodies and droves.

Your emotions make you human. Even the unpleasant ones have a purpose. Don't lock them away. If you ignore them, they just get louder and angrier.

Your path will shine when you shine on your path!

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

When you mention to people growing up in Cleveland they bring up the river catching on fire, or LeBron James leaving, they have these references, but no one imagines ending up there.

Yet for every peak there is a valley.

If you have but a single ruler, you lie at the discretion of a master who has no reason to love you: and if you have several, you must bear at once their tyranny and their divisions.

Nothing beats performing live. For me, there's nothing better.

No one has a right to occupy the privileged position all the time, so it should be contested. It should always be messy in there.

The idea of a commonwealth relationship is alien to most people but I think that's true generally.

That sort of effort has to come not only from the writer but also from a really innovative publisher like Quirk.