Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, very few of our constituents, very few in the world, see anything of the Congress other than its public side, exemplified in the letters we write, the speeches we make, the appearances that seem to define us. That, of course, is a part, a very important part, of what and who we are. But it is not the whole picture, and it is the other part of that picture that determines in large measure whether we are successful in the public part of our lives. The private lives of Members, their relationships with colleagues, with family, with their Creator, form, more than anything else, the real 'who' that we are, the real persons that succeed or fail, day in and day out, with the duties we are assigned or which we assume on our own in this place we know as the House of Representatives. In days of increasing intervention into privacy, both for the public at large, and especially for those in public life, something may perhaps be gained, but much is lost as well.”