Frasi di Sam Rayburn

Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn è stato un politico statunitense originario di Bonham, in Texas.

Fu il presidente della Camera dei rappresentanti degli Stati Uniti per 17 anni. A lui è dedicato il Bacino Sam Rayburn, un lago artificiale presso Beaumont.

Esponente del partito Democratico, raggiunse un enorme prestigio durante gli anni della sua presidenza della maggioranza del Congresso, favorendo la carriera politica di molti giovani rappresentanti tra cui il futuro presidente Lyndon Baines Johnson. Wikipedia  

✵ 6. Gennaio 1882 – 16. Novembre 1961
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Sam Rayburn: Frasi in inglese

“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.

“Well, Lyndon, you may be right and they may be every bit as intelligent as you say, but I'd feel a whole lot better about them if just one of them had run for sheriff once.”

To Lyndon Johnson, regarding Johnson's attendance at his first Cabinet meeting (under Kennedy); reported in David Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest (1972), Introduction.

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

Reported in The Leadership of Speaker Sam Rayburn, Collected Tributes of His Congressional Colleagues (1961), p. 34; House Doc. 87–247.

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

On the weekly radio broadcast, "Texas Forum of the Air" (November 1, 1942); reported in Congressional Record (November 2, 1942), vol. 88, Appendix, p. A3866.

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

Said during filmed conversation with reporters (c. 1953); reported in "Speak, Mister Speaker" (1978), p. 138.

“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.”

W. B. Ragsdale, "An Old Friend Writes of Rayburn", in U.S. News & World Report (October 23, 1961), p. 72.

“Learn to disagree without being disagreeable.”

Advice to new congressmen (1949); quoted by Gerald Ford (2000).
Origine: Excerpt; Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford, "Civility," April 2000 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4D2F89rFWU, video on the YouTube channel of the LBJ Library.

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