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Samuel Taliaferro „Sam“ Rayburn war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker. Er vertrat den Bundesstaat Texas im US-Repräsentantenhaus. Wikipedia  

✵ 6. Januar 1882 – 16. November 1961
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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.”

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).
Quelle: 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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