| "We have the best congress money can buy." »Will Rogers |
| "We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but congress can." »Cullen Hightower |
| "If you tell congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing." »Harry S Truman |
| "I don't mind what congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses." »Victor Hugo |
| "congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens -- and then everybody disagrees." »Boris Marshalov |
| "Oh, I don't blame congress. If I had 600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too." »Lichty and Wagner |
| "There is no distinctly native American criminal class except congress." »Mark Twain |
| "There is good news from Washington today. congress is deadlocked and can't act." »Will Rogers |
| "This country has come to feel the same when congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer." »Will Rogers |
| "The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress." »Hendrik Willem Van Loon |
| "It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except congress." »Mark Twain |
| "Give a member of congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state." »David Dean Rusk |
| "congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority." »Barber B. Conable, Jr |
| "That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience or to prevent the people of the United states who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms..." »Samuel Adams |
| "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress but I repeat myself." »Mark Twain |
| "I don't think it's the function of congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision." »Barber B. Conable, Jr |
| "The fights I fought... cost a lot --the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in congress. The NRA is the reason the Republicans control the House." »William Jefferson Clinton |
| "You need to know that a member of congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year." »William Jefferson Clinton |
| "The congress will push me to raise taxes, and I'll say no, and they'll push and I'll say no, and they'll push again. And all I can say to them is read my lips No New Taxes." »George Herbert Walker Bush |
| "Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defence Where is the difference between having our arms in our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of congress If our defence be therealobject of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands" »Patrick Henry |
| "With congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke." »Will Rogers |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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