Political Quotes

There may be a change of persons, but the government of the United States is in the people of the United States and there are a good many of the people of the United States in Chicago.

The important thing is to get our tariff legislation out of the slough of guesswork and logrolling and ex parte statements of interested persons, and to establish that legislation on the basis of tested and determined facts.

The truth is that the language of the act is so ambiguous and possibly all-embracing that it is impracticable for the Treasury Department to give an exact estimate as to the diminution in revenue which will follow its passage.

Pledged to support a policy of moderate protection, I can not approve a measure which violates its principle.