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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

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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.

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

Said during filmed conversation with reporters (1953)

Learn to disagree without being disagreeable.

Advice to new congressmen (1949)

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

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

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