Lynne Olson Quotes

After Rep. Martin Sweeney of Ohio delivered a scathing attack on the Roosevelt administration for allegedly using conscription as a way to get the United States into the war, Rep. Beverly Vincent of Kentucky, who was next to Sweeney, loudly muttered that he refused “to sit by a traitor.” Sweeney swung at Vincent, who responded with a sharp right to the jaw that sent Sweeney staggering. It was, said the House doorkeeper, the best punch thrown by a member of Congress in fifty years.

~ Lynne Olson

In being able to learn from his mistakes and grow, Eisenhower was transformed from a mere person into a personage.

~ Lynne Olson

If I really wanted to say or ask anything important (to her imposing father) I could not trust my tongue to get it right.

~ Lynne Olson

In the earliest days of World War II when London was undergoing the blitz but the United States had not yet been drawn into the hostilities, the US ambassador walked the streets during the hottest of the bombing and ask people at every level of British society what he could do to help. What a picture of our role as ambassadors of Christ's coming Kingdom!

~ Lynne Olson