“A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, ...” — Woodrow Wilson Quote

“A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.”

“If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.”

“Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling.”

“I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.”

“In the 1820s, westerners and political outsiders worried that rich men in the east had commandeered the government for their own ends.”

“There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.”