Brien McMahon quotes

The experience of a century and a half has demonstrated that our system of free government functions best when the maximum degree of information is made available to our people. In fact, free and candid discussion of vexing problems is the bedrock of democracy and it may be our surest safeguard for peace.
-- Brien McMahon

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Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.

I agree that ***** laws are overdue for an overhaul. I also favor the medical use of ***** -- if it's prescribed by a physician. I cannot understand why the federal government should interfere with the doctor-patient relationship, nor why it would ignore the will of a majority of voters who have legally approved such legislation.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Public opinion in this country is everything.

That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.