Sam Rayburn

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'

A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.

Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.

Any jackass can kick a barn down but it takes a carpenter to build it.

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

If you want to get along, go along.

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.

I like power and I like to use it.

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.