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There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. – Mark Twain
We have the best Congress money can buy. – Will Rogers
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
American leaders created a system that allowed a free distribution of wealth and power. People leave their economic class and become richer regardless of their ethnic or national background. Therefore, despite having more diverse people in our society than any other nation, we have more stable national politics. If our elites try to limit the openness of the socioeconomic system, the system will be corrected in any number of forms including civic unrest. When Bush's administration invaded Iraq and bailed out Wall Street, the people brought in Obama. When Obama bailed out Wall Street again and considered raising the tax on the people, the system brought the Tea Party into power and the ruling party lost control of the Congress. People expressed their anger via peaceful elections. – Med Jones
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress but I repeat myself. – Mark Twain
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
Congress consists of one third, more or less, scoundrels; two thirds, more or less, idiots; and three thirds, more or less, poltroons. – H. L. Mencken
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
Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens -- and then everybody disagrees. – Boris Marshalov
Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state. – David Dean Rusk
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. – Victor Hugo
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
If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing. – Harry S Truman
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. – John Adams
It could probably be show by facts and figures that there is no distinctively native American criminal class except Congress. – Mark Twain
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress. – Mark Twain
It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye. – George Pratt Shultz
Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress. – Quentin Crisp
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had 600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too. – Lichty and Wagner
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. – Mark Twain
Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. – Mark Twain
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
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
The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythicals beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out. – Will Rodgers
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

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