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Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. – Victor Hugo	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress but I repeat myself. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing. – Harry S Truman	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is good news from Washington today. Congress is deadlocked and can't act. – Will Rogers	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We have the best Congress money can buy. – Will Rogers	added by anonymous 14 years ago
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. – Will Rogers	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens -- and then everybody disagrees. – Boris Marshalov	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can. – Cullen Hightower	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state. – David Dean Rusk	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye. – George Pratt Shultz	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had 600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too. – Lichty and Wagner	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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