(2067 quotes found)
“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
“America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments”
Anatole France
“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money”
Alexis de Tocqueville
“They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.”
Clare Boothe Luce
“The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.”
Will Rogers
“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.”
“Congress, after years of stalling, finally got around to clearing the way for informal discussions that might lead to possible formal talks that could potentially produce some kind of tentative agreements...”
Dave Barry
“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
