Word: make
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...moral law. I say moral law rather than statutory law because I happen to be one of those people who has very little faith in the ability of statutory law to change the human heart, or to eliminate prejudice . . . The important thing is that we go ahead, that we make progress. This does not necessarily mean revolution. In my mind, it means evolution...
Defending Strauss against McGee's attack, Pennsylvania Republican Hugh Scott told the Senate in effect that the atmosphere of the hearings was hostile enough to make anybody evasive. The hearings, said Scott, often had "a nightmare quality ... At one point a woman rose from the audience and shouted that Mr. Strauss had financed the Russian Revolution. So bizarre had been some of the evidence against Mr. Strauss that, instead of recognizing this as the ravings of an unfortunate person, I wondered if in fact this was not the next witness...
Rockefeller also told one of the oldest of all political jokes - the one about a Western Governor attending his first hanging. When the condemned man declined to make a departing speech, the Governor offered to say a few words. The sheriff asked the prisoner if the Governor could have the time. Replied the prisoner: "Yes, but only on the condition that you hang me first...
...being a formidable presidential rival to Club Member Richard Nixon (by then in California on a long-scheduled visit). Said Indiana's conservative Senator Homer Capehart of Rockefeller: "A fine personality - a compelling personality." Glowed New Jersey's James Auchincloss: "I don't think he can make himself any more popular. He's a natural...
...hope the gentleman will not try to make a statesman out of me," rumbled Tennessee's Democratic Congressman Ross Bass on the House floor last week. "Let's talk politics." Rarely has Ross Bass or any other Congressman come closer to expressing the will of the House. Under debate was a wheat-subsidy bill-and the outcome was 100% political, unalloyed by the slightest pretense of statesmanship...