“Congress had embarrassed itself at having produced so little. It had to look as if it could do something.”
Richard Darman
“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
“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money”
Alexis de Tocqueville
“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
“America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments”
Anatole France
“Neglected by Congress below, distressed with the small-pox; want of Generals and discipline in our Army, which may rather be called a great rabble, our credit and reputation lost, and great part of the country; and a powerful foreign enemy advancing upon us, are so many difficulties we cannot surmount them.”
Benedict Arnold
