Quotes from Millicent Fenwick

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.

The essence of good taste is a sense of values, and a sense of values is the pivotal point of good living.

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

The business of government is justice.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

If there is one thing the past years have taught us, it is the importance of a keen and high sense of honor in those who handle our governmental affairs.

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.

Like life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are trivialities, but its roots are in great principles.

There is hardly a facet of life that is now free of some sort of federal action.

The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.

Women are on the outside when the door to the smoke-filled room is closed.

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.

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

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.