"You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too"
— Sam Rayburn

January 1, 1970

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Democratic Party (United States) politiciansPoliticians from TexasUnited States presidential candidates, 1956Speakers of the United States House of Representatives‎People from Tennessee
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Reported in The Leadership of Speaker Sam Rayburn, Collected Tributes of His Congressional Colleagues (1961), p. 34; House Doc. 87–247.