“Spanish citizens must be consulted before Congress takes irreversible steps.”
Angel Acebes
“Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself”
Mark Twain
“If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.”
Thomas Jefferson
“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money”
Alexis de Tocqueville
“America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments”
Anatole France
“They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.”
Clare Boothe Luce
