Howard H. Baker, Jr.

“The business of the Senate is not to pass laws, but to prevent bad laws from being passed.”

“I think that the art of politics is to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.”

“What did the president know and when did he know it?”

“I'm a moderate. I believe in a moderate approach to our problems.”

“A politician is thinking about the next election, and a statesman is thinking about the next generation.”

“I always said that the only thing I wanted to be was a country lawyer.”

“I know a good many people who are in politics that shouldn't be.”

“The observation of the right of privacy was the principal thread running through the tapestry of the Constitution.”

“It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen.”

“My father told me that the only way you can be a good lawyer is to be a good person.”