Sam Rayburn Quote

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.


Reported in Neil MacNeil, Forge of Democracy, the House of Representatives (1963), p. 129.


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.

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.

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.

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.