Morris Udall

Morris King Udall (15 June 1922 – 12 December 1998), often known as "Mo", was an American politician. He served as a Democratic U.S. Representative for Arizona from 1961 to 1991.

The voters have spoken — the bastards.

Quotes

• Everything has been said but not everyone has said it.
  • At a committee hearing; as quoted by Harry Reid, in remarks in the US Senate (14 June 2001), published in the Congressional Record, Vol. 147, No. 83

• Let's turn inflation over to the post office. That'll slow it down.
  • As quoted in "Morris K. Udall, Fiercely Liberal Congressman, Dies at 76" by Richard Severo, The New York Times (14 December 1998)

• The voters have spoken — the bastards.
  • Quoted in The Making of an Ink-stained Wretch: Half a Century Pounding the Political Beat (2005) by Jules Witcover; also in "EU democracy for referendummies" by Craig Winneker, Politico (15 April 2016)

Misattributed

• Presidential ambition is a disease which can only be cured by embalming fluid.
  • Quoting from Estes Kefauver

External links

• Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation
• Profile – at the Political Graveyard
• Morris K. Udall manuscript collection, the Library of the University of Arizona