Billy Broadhurst Quotes

As Chairman of the [House] Ways and Means Committee, I can contact the President whoever he may be, quite readily on the telephone. As a Vice President, I don't know whether he'd listen to me or not.

If the election had been held on October 27, I would be your President.

I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.

People vote for the president, not the vice president. I think sometimes people that are in the veepstakes talk too much about this and certainly the media does. I don't think that it's that important.

Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government.

Presidency: The greased pig in the game of American politics.

There will be a new president in this country someday, and I have as good a chance as anybody.

When I left government, it appeared I could get some rather unusual things done from the inside.

The Congress is getting too powerful.

The second office of the government is honorable & easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

Without the Congress I am just a six-foot-four Texan.

The national security state controls the President. It controls most of the executive departments.

I would rather have a full term in the Senate—a place in which I would feel more consciously able to discharge the duties required, and where there is more chance to make a reputation, and less danger of losing it than four years of the presidency.

The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.

Any railroad corporation has infinitely more influence in any department of government than all the human beings that live in the territory that the railroad traverses.

Money speaks louder than words in Washington.

... corporate power ... is not only economic—the ability to set prices without regard to market pressures or to manipulate consumer demand. It is also political—the ability to use the public government to obtain private economic goals. Corporate power means the ability of big corporations to have more than their fair share of influence over the decisions of government.

I’ve seen the lions of industry become lambs when they come into the Oval Office

The president is the government.

What would Alex Rose do to us in the next election, Jackie?

At present the direction of our affairs, foreign and domestic, has again come to be almost wholly in the hands of the Senate, because there are in the Senate a few courageous men who have dared to take control from the Executive.

He [Jimmy Carter] can't win the presidency. I don't even know him.

It is not nothing to ask someone holding an election certificate in the United States Senate to provide his or her vote.

Oh, if only I could be President and Congress, too, just for ten minutes.

You can get from a politician whatever you demand in this country. The great irony is that everybody complains about how it runs but not enough people direct their force and power directly at the politicians and make demands upon them. Ours is a system that abhors remoteness. If you're remote from this political system, it'll kill you.