"We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress"

"It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are"

"The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace"

"If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?"

"They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men"

"Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge"

"Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities"

"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money"

"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still"

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time"

"And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship"