Sam Rayburn Quotes

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

Sam Rayburn

Don't try to go too fast. Learn your job. Don't ever talk until you know what you're talking about... If you want to get along, go along.

Sam Rayburn

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.

Sam Rayburn

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

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

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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

In my many years as a Representative in Congress it is my observation that the district that is best represented is the district that is wise enough to select a man of energy, intelligence, and integrity and reelects him year after year. A man of this type and character serves more efficiently and effectively the longer he is returned by his people.

Sam Rayburn

I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but gentlemen, these men are not in the race.

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Born: January 6, 1882

Died: November 16, 1961 (aged 79)

Bio: Samuel Taliaferro "Sam" Rayburn was a Democratic lawmaker from Bonham, Texas, who served as the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives for 17 years, the longest tenure in U.S. history.

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