MIKE MANSFIELD

You are the President. You tell them to go to hell.

I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War.

Secrecy now beclouds everything about CIA—its cost, its efficiency, its successes, and its failures.

Once secrecy becomes sacrosanct, it invites abuse.

We are all equal on this floor, and a senator must keep his word.

We cannot hope to substitute armed power for the kind of political and economic social changes that offer the best resistance to Communism. If the necessary reforms have not been forthcoming over the past seven years to stop Communist subversion and rebellion, then I do not see how American combat troops can do it today.

Secrecy now beclouds everything about the Central Intelligence Agency—its cost, its efficiency, its success, its failures.

An urgent need exists for regular and responsible Congressional scrutiny of the Central Intelligence Agency. Such scrutiny is essential… Our form of government…is based on a system of checks and balances. If this system gets seriously out of balance at any point the whole system is jeopardized and the way is opened for the growth of tyranny…CIA is freed from practically every ordinary form of Congressional check. I agree that an intelligence agency must maintain complete secrecy to be effective. However, there is a profound difference between an essential degree of secrecy to achieve a specific purpose and secrecy for the mere sake of secrecy.

I'm not their leader really. They don't do what I tell them. I do what they tell me.

We’ve got to get out of Vietnam or else we have to educate the people as to why we are in there.

I have treated Japan as I would like to be treated, and they have responded in kind.

Senator, we just don't use that kind of language on the floor of the Senate.

We are all equal on this floor, and a senator must keep his word.

I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War.

An urgent need exists for regular and responsible Congressional scrutiny of the Central Intelligence Agency. Such scrutiny is essential… Our form of government…is based on a system of checks and balances. If this system gets seriously out of balance at any point the whole system is jeopardized and the way is opened for the growth of tyranny…CIA is freed from practically every ordinary form of Congressional check. I agree that an intelligence agency must maintain complete secrecy to be effective. However, there is a profound difference between an essential degree of secrecy to achieve a specific purpose and secrecy for the mere sake of secrecy.

Congress ... ought to work five days a week to keep legislation from piling up.

I believe that every member [of Congress] ought to be equal in fact, no less than in theory.

I have treated Japan as I would like to be treated, and they have responded in kind.

Majorities without discipline are not majorities.

Once secrecy becomes sacrosanct, it invites abuse.

Secrecy now beclouds everything about CIA—its cost, its efficiency, its successes, and its failures.

The leaders of the Senate ... have no power delegated to them except on the basis of courtesy, accommodation, and a sense of responsibility.

I'm not their leader really. They don't do what I tell them. I do what they tell me.

We cannot hope to substitute armed power for the kind of political and economic social changes that offer the best resistance to Communism. If the necessary reforms have not been forthcoming over the past seven years to stop Communist subversion and rebellion, then I do not see how American combat troops can do it today.

A piece of each of us died.

We’ve got to get out of Vietnam or else we have to educate the people as to why we are in there.

Secrecy now beclouds everything about the Central Intelligence Agency—its cost, its efficiency, its success, its failures.

When President Johnson was Majority Leader he ran things the way he wanted them. Now I am Majority Leader and will run things the way I want them