“I have been thinking that I would make a propositionto my Republican friends…that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.”

“Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them”

“All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.”

“You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.”

“He is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.”

Adali E. Stevenson Governor of Illinois (1949-1953) and Ambassador to the United Nations (1961-1965)