“If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.”
Will Rogers
“When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste: Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe, And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight: Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.”
William Shakespeare
“The average session takes about one to two hours. It's totally amazing because when a person breathes, they go through one stage of relaxation after another, and every stage releases tension.”
Leonard Orr
“I've thrown one full side [session] and two little half sides to stay as fresh as I could be. It's [tough], I've never had to do it before. It's the first time I've been bumped from a start. With days off, you get a little antsy, but you work through it.”
Dustin Nippert
“[One official described the sessions as] polite but tough. ... it is important that his report be a statement of the facts.”
Ari Fleischer
“One lesson from Athens was that we routed no video between an Avid edit session and a graphics session.”
Phil Paully
“I think in a lot of ways this is very typical of what happens in this type of session. It's just the nature of things that big, important pieces of legislation always go down to the wire, and there are several of those types of things in this session.”
Barry Erwin
