Morris Udall

Let's turn inflation over to the post office. That'll slow it down.

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

Quotes

• Everything has been said but not everyone has said it.
  • At a committee hearing. Quoted multiple times by Harry Reid, e.g. Congressional Record Vol. 147, No. 83

• Let's turn inflation over to the post office. That'll slow it down.
  • Quoted in Richard Severo, "Morris K. Udall, Fiercely Liberal Congressman, Dies at 76," The New York Times (1998-12-14)

• The voters have spoken — the bastards.
  • Quoted in [1] and Jules Witcover 2005

Misattributed

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