their anxiety, justified or not, was genuine,

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,

(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

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

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.

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.

I was just a folk singer. I cut my teeth on the streets, you know.

Many times, people attack the well-to-do people. They see an opportunity.

We don't always get what we deserve," she replied, patting James over his heart. "Sometimes we get more; sometimes we get less. At least we get something.

Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.

She bestowed the blessing of a wild girl's lips.

I think Billy Ray has a lot of great stories up his sleeve. I've heard a lot of his plans for the show, should it go forward, and I think there's a lot in store for people, if it's given a chance.

A Church without Youth is a Church without a future. Moreover, Youth without a Church is Youth without a future.

One should never create tension between one's footwear.

My worst song is stimulating beyond words. My best songs are downright scary.