George Smathers

“I have always felt that the best security for the United States is a strong, stable, and friendly government in Cuba.”

“He was a man of enormous energy, enormous ego, and enormous ability.”

“He was the first of the modern presidents.”

“The Russians are not going to attack us. They are not that stupid. The great danger is that we will commit suicide.”

“I think the one thing that I was most happy that I was able to do, from the standpoint of my state, was to get the Cape Canaveral complex started and going.”

“I was probably more of a liberal than I'll ever be given credit for.”

“You get into the Senate, you're somebody. When you get out, you're nobody. It's a humbling experience.”

“Are you aware that Claude Pepper is known all over Washington as a shameless extrovert? Not only that, but this man is reliably reported to practice nepotism with his sister-in-law, and he has a sister who was once a thespian in wicked New York.”