38 Quotes by Millicent Fenwick

Everyone in America seems to be joining an organization of some kind, and in Congress one hears from them all.

When you're old, everything you do is sort of a miracle.

We must have government, but we must watch them like a hawk.

Good behavior is everybody’s business, and good taste can be everyone’s goal.

You may never reach a solution, but you’re never absolved from the responsibility of trying.

A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn’t inherited ours, we should have had to invent one.

Influence comes out of the work that you’ve done and the things you’ve stood for. Influence and power shouldn’t be given to just anybody who wants them.

One of the keys to our present definition of good taste is that it is better to be kind than to be ‘correct.’ There is no situation in which it is smart to be nasty.

Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there’s hardly ever a woman inside.