Sam Rayburn was a good man, a good American, and, third, a good Democrat.

Sam Rayburn took unnumbered secrets with him to the grave, for he was never loquacious, and his word, once given, was not subject to retraction.

And he said, `` The same fellow who has been running it, Sam Rayburn ''.

It is notably significant that so many Members from both sides of the aisle express their respect and admiration for our beloved Speaker, the Honorable Sam Rayburn.

It is a matter of deep personal satisfaction for me to add my voice to the great and distinguished chorus of my colleagues in this paean of praise, respect, and affection for Speaker Sam Rayburn.

But the task is beyond me because I hold it impossible to compress in a sentence or two the complicated and prodigious contributions Sam Rayburn has made as an individual, as a legislator, as a statesman and as a leader and conciliator, to the majestic progress of this Nation.

For Sam Rayburn never forgot Bonham, his home community, and he never forgot Texas.

More than that, Sam Rayburn is the very living symbol of an iron-clad integrity so powerful in his nature and so constantly demonstrated that he can count some of his best friends in the opposition.

All but two of my nine terms in the House of Representatives has been served under the Speakership of Sam Rayburn.

And Sam Rayburn is a great man -- one who will go down in American history as a truly great leader of the Nation.

I pay my personal tribute to Sam Rayburn, stalwart Texan and great American, not only because today he establishes a record of having served as Speaker of the House of Representatives more than twice as long as Henry Clay, but because of the contributions he has made to the welfare of the people of the Nation during his almost half century of service as a Member of Congress.

No one has sponsored more progressive and important legislation than has Sam Rayburn.

But to run the gauntlet of the programs Sam Rayburn brought into being through his legislative efforts would fill the pages of today's Record.

Sam Rayburn is one of the greatest American public figures in the history of our country and I consider that I have been singly honored in the privilege of knowing Sam Rayburn and sharing with him the rights and obligations of a Member of the House of Representatives in the Congress of the United States.

I prefer to speak, however, of Sam Rayburn, the person, rather than Sam Rayburn, the American institution.

Although Sam Rayburn affects a gruff exterior in many instances, nevertheless he is fundamentally a man of warm heart and gentle disposition.

On September 16, Sam Rayburn will have served as Speaker twice as long as any predecessor and I am proud to join with others in marking this date, and in expressing my esteem for that notable American, Sam Rayburn.

A perceptive journalist, Sam Lubell, has phrased it in the title of one of his books as the revolt of the moderates.

But since 1945, Sam Spade has undergone a metamorphosis ; ;

Mr. Truman has only to recall the `` hopeless '' campaign of 1948 to remember what a loyal partisan he was and the first experience of Mr. Kennedy with Congress would have been sadder than it was had not Mr. Sam been there.

Sam Caton's Butterwyn ( Scotch Victor-Butler Wyn ), a light bay filly, knows nothing but trot and has worked on the half-mile in 2:30-:36.

The panel's action depends on the return of Representative James W. Trimble, Democrat of Arkansas, who has been siding with Speaker Sam Rayburn's forces in the Rules Committee in moving bills to the floor.

Among many roles in his career, Arau has played " Captain Herrera ", a lieutenant of Federal general " Mapache ", in Sam Peckinpah's 1969 western, The Wild Bunch, chief bandit " El Guapo " in Three Amigos ( USA, 1986 ), a comedy with Martin Short, Steve Martin, and Chevy Chase, and the smuggler " Juan " in Romancing the Stone which starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.

" Ash " Williams in Sam Raimi's Evil Dead series of films and he has starred in many low-budget cult films such as Crimewave, Maniac Cop, Bubba Ho-tep, Escape From L. A. and Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat.

One detail has been added to the inside of the collar: the phrase " Keep Pounding ", in honor of the late Panthers player and coach Sam Mills.

Author Sam Harris has argued that we overestimate the relevance of many arguments against the science of morality, arguments he believes scientists happily and rightly disregard in other domains of science like physics.

Also the widespread acceptance of video art as a form has made it possible for British artists such as Sam Taylor-Wood and Isaac Julien to make film works outside of the demands of cinema exhibition.

* In the game series Splinter Cell there are numerous references to the Four Freedoms, with the commanding officer of protagonist Sam Fisher, stating at one point, " this is fifth freedom territory ", indicating that the situation ( in the game plot ) has gotten so grave that one or more of the Four Freedoms are threatened.

Later, in Woody Allen's comic tribute to Bogart Play It Again, Sam ( 1972 ), Bogart's ghost comes to the aid of Allen's bumbling character, a movie critic with woman troubles and whose " sex life has turned into the ' Petrified Forest '".

* 1861 – Edward Clark became Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who has been evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy.

" The magazine's art director, Sam Viviano, has suggested that historically, Mad was at its best " whenever you first started reading it.

Among the musicians with whom he has played are Eddie Harris, Lee Konitz, Dave Liebman, Sam Rivers, Bob Mintzer, Terry Gibbs, Buddy DeFranco, Roscoe Mitchell, Evan Parker, Jay McShann, Herbie Mann, Randy Brecker, Jerry Goodman and Ramsey Lewis and many others.

* Sam Peckinpah has been the subject of two documentaries including the BBC production Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron ( 1992 ), directed by Paul Joyce, and The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage ( 1996 ) directed by Paul Seydor.

One of the characters has " Sam Peckinpah " tattooed on their arm.

He is fired by the network in the first episode of series 2, although he is never shown on screen in that episode ; the real reason for this is that Lawrence died of lung cancer between the filming of series 1 and series 2, forcing the writers to create a new executive producer character, Sam ( see below ).

In 1974 he went to Los Angeles to work on a script ( never produced ) with Sam Shepard, and to his own surprise took up residence there.

As he was looking at the picture, Goldwyn's wife Frances said " Sam never took it down.

In the episode's epilogue, Sam is shown to have returned to Beth, appearing to her as himself, assuring her that Al is safe and will return to her ; this results in Al and Beth remaining happily married in the future, while Sam never returns to the future.

At the start of The Lord of the Rings Sam, typically for a hobbit, had never before ventured far from the immediate area where he lived.

The idea for Smithers ' orientation came from Sam Simon, who proposed that Smithers should be gay, but the writers should never draw too much attention to it and should try to keep it in the back of their heads.

The idea for Smithers ' orientation came from Sam Simon, who proposed that Smithers should be gay, but the writers should never draw too much attention to it and should try to keep it in the back of their heads.

Lydon, Levene and Jeanette Lee were joined by a new drummer, 60-year-old jazz player Sam Ulano, who had been recruited for the gig from a bar, having apparently never heard the band before.

Sam Bass died when he was 27, and it was rumored he never lived to retrieve the gold.

While pulp detectives such as Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe are hard-boiled and cynical, Hammer is in many ways the archetypal " hard man ": brutally violent, and fuelled by a genuine rage against violent crime that never afflicts Raymond Chandler's or Dashiell Hammett's heroes.

The slang phrase " L7 " can be heard in the Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs song " Wooly Bully " (" Let's not be L7, come and learn to dance ..."), in the Rick James song " Bustin ' Out " (" L7-just a little too damn straight ..."), and in the Paul McCartney song " C Moon " (" I could be L7 and I'll never get to heaven if I fill my head with glue ").

" Though well-received by both peers and critics, and attaining a few moderate pop and several major R & B hits while at Atlantic, Burke never broke through into the mainstream as did Sam Cooke or Otis Redding, who covered Burke's " Down in the Valley " for 1965's Otis Blue.

Sam & Dave made their final Atlantic recordings in August 1972, four songs never released by the label.

One key element to this show is how Sam never uses weapons, like MacGyver.

He is never seen by viewers of the program, only heard debriefing Sam on her cases.

According to frontman Doug Pinnick, while longtime King's X producer Sam Taylor had a big influence on the band's sound, he never captured the heaviness of their live performance in the studio.

A running gag in Yosemite Sam cartoons is that Sam's animals ( camel, elephant, dragon ) or airplanes never stop when he wants them to ; Sam then loses his temper and bonks the offending animal / machine.

This amazing stop-motion sequence, never since equaled by a single individual, took over four months to complete, and helped to inspire an entire generation of subsequent filmmakers like Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Tim Burton, Sam Raimi and James Cameron, among many others.

He never played sports, and was only into academics until he met Sam.