CONGRESS QUOTES III

quotations about the U.S. Congress

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I never know what South Carolina thinks of a measure. I never consult her. I act to the best of my judgment, and according to my conscience. If she approves, well and good. If she does not, or wishes any one to take my place, I am ready to vacate.

JOHN C. CALHOUN

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Papers say: "Congress is deadlocked and can't act." I think that is the greatest blessing that could befall this country.

WILL ROGERS

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As for Congress, one imaginative polling firm found that brussels sprouts, head lice, cockroaches, colonoscopies, and gonorrhea were more popular than our elected representatives.

CHARLIE LEDUFF

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The American, if he has a spark of national feeling, will be humiliated by the very prospect of a foreigner's visit to Congress -- these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage, these persons are a reflection on the democratic process rather than of it; they expose it in its underwear.

MARY MCCARTHY

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A new study published by The British Medical Journal found that inactivity can kill you. I mean, these are the kind of findings that just scare the hell out of Congress.

JAY LENO

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Members of Congress are like the voters in one respect -- they want to go with the winners.

RALPH NADER

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Give us at least a plausible apology why congress should keep their proceedings in secret. They have the power of keeping them in secret as long as they please; for the provision for a periodical publication is too inexplicit and ambiguous to avail any thing. The expression, from time to time, as I have more than once observed, admits of any extension. They may carry on the most wicked and pernicious of schemes under the dark veil of secrecy. The liberties of a people never were nor ever will be secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

PATRICK HENRY

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In Congress the majority governs, but the minority rules.

EVAN ESAR

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Kid Congress and the Senate, don't scold 'em. They are just children that's never grown up. They don't like to be corrected in company. Don't send messages to 'em, send candy.

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.

WILL ROGERS

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No matter how short the session, Congress always has the necessary time to pass the unnecessary legislation.

EVAN ESAR

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Not one British citizen in a thousand watches what is done in Parliament; not one in a thousand Americans follows the discourses of Congress. Interest has gone. Every election in the past thirty years has been fought on gross misunderstandings.

H.G. WELLS

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Our "bipartisan" Congressional orientation is cohosted by a corporate lobbyist group.... Lobbyists are here. Goldman Sachs is here. Where's labor? Activists? Frontline community leaders?

ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

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Talk is cheap -- except when Congress does it.

CULLEN HIGHTOWER

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Sounds become more like other sounds that neighbor them. That is why one congressman oinks, another moos, and another bleats.

BAUVARD

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Congress is like first grade ... only not as well behaved.

SEAN PATRICK MALONEY

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Congress would give the people what they wanted if the people knew what they wanted, and if Congress could give it to them.

EVAN ESAR

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He still had a fragment of his boyhood belief that congressmen were persons of intelligence and importance.

SINCLAIR LEWIS

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To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman.

MARK TWAIN

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Congress has always had a soft spot for “experts” who tell members what they want to hear, whether it’s supply-side economists declaring that tax cuts increase revenue or climate-change skeptics insisting that global warming is a myth.

PAUL KRUGMAN

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