Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
9
AUTHOR:
John Newton Mitchell (1913–88)
QUOTATION:
You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
ATTRIBUTION:
JOHN N. MITCHELL, U.S. attorney general, remarks (overheard by reporters) in July 1969 after meeting with a group of black civil rights workers, who protested the Administration’s action on the Voting Rights Act of 1965.—The Washington Post, “Watch What We Do,” editorial, July 7, 1969, p. A22.
