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Mark Twain
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Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat myself.
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Cullen Hightower
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The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.
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Will Rogers
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We have the best Congress money can buy.
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Cullen Hightower
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Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.
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Boris Marshalov
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Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens -- and then everybody disagrees.
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Harry S Truman
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If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing.
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Lichty and Wagner
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Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had 600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
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Will Rogers
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There is good news from Washington today. Congress is deadlocked and can't act.
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Mark Twain
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There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
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Victor Hugo
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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Clare Boothe Luce
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They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
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Wendell Phillips
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To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
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Hendrik Willem Van Loon
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The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
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David Dean Rusk
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Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state.
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Barber B. Conable, Jr
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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.
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Andy Grove
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Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.
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Mark Twain
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Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat myself.
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Barber B. Conable, Jr
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I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.
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Mark Twain
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Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress but I repeat myself.
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Chandler Burr
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latin: Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.; always seen as Knowledge is power and appears inscribed on the wall of the north lobby of The Library of Congress (The Thomas Jefferson Building)
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Samuel Adams
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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...
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William Jefferson Clinton
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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.
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William Jefferson Clinton
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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.
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George Herbert Walker Bush
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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.
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Patrick Henry
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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
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Will Rogers
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With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke.
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CONgress (n) - Opposite of PROgress
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Crime, Sex, Alcohol, Drugs...God do I love Congress
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We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
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They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
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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.
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This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.
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It could probably be show by facts and figures that there is no distinctively native American criminal class except Congress.
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The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythicals beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out.
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Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
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The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the goo
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"Congress is the only inherent criminal class in America." - Mark Twain
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"Sex! Lies! Drugs! Money! Power! Corruption! God, I love Congress!"
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"CONTROL the INTERNET!!" - 1995 Republican Congress chant
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"America has no criminal class except her Congress." - Mark Twain
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Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
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Congress consists of one third, more or less, scoundrels; two thirds, more or less, idiots; and three thirds, more or less, poltroons.
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"Can't solve the problem? Pass a law!" -- U.S. Congress
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"CONGRESS" Expensive! and built to stay that way
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"One nation, under Congress, with Comfort and Security for all"
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"A traffic jam at the congress intersection." -- Tom Servo
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Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
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