Famous quotes by Sam Rayburn

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

– Sam Rayburn

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

– Sam Rayburn

I like power and I like to use it.

– 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.

– Sam Rayburn

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

– Sam Rayburn

If you want to get along, go along.

– Sam Rayburn

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

– Sam Rayburn

They may be just as intelligent as you say. But I'd feel a helluva lot better if just one of them had ever run for sheriff.

– Sam Rayburn

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

– Sam Rayburn

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

– 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

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