Wayne L. Hays Quotes
If you can't control these rumheads when you're their candidate, how the hell do you expect to control them if you become President?
McGovern partisans were hostile to the Congressman in his own home district:
Wayne L. Hays, U. S. Congressman (Democrat, OH), Question of George McGovern, 1972
Sourced by: Eigen's Political and Historical Quotations
Churchill's first government job was as Undersecretary of the Colonies. Shortly after his appointment he observed:
Also attributed earlier to Thomas Corwin. See under "Memorials"
Ever since the beginning of the Republic, the major source of Federal revenue was customs duty from New York. The collector employed a massive bureaucracy and was then one of the largest patronage controller in the country. Thurlow Weed and other New York political bosses offered Abraham Lincoln their political support if Lincoln would give them control of the patronage. On September 5, 1864 Lincoln fired his man, Hiram Barney, and replaced him with Draper. The new collector promptly replaced key personnel down the line and stated publicly:
In 1862 after a Sioux uprising, a U. S. military commission condemned 303 Indians to death. President Lincoln wanted to delegate reviewing the sentences for possible pardon. The President personally reviewed the records of each case and pardoned most. On December 26, 1862 the largest public execution in American history took place with 38 Indians hanged.
Wayne Levere Hays was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative of Ohio, in the Democratic Party, from 1949 to 1976. He resigned from Congress after a much-publicized sex scandal.
