(2067 quotes found)
“If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?”
Thomas Jefferson
“People, wake up Figure it out Religious fanatics Around and about The Court House, The State House, The Congress, The White House Criminal saints With a "Heavenly Mission" - A nation enraptured By pure superstition”
Frank Zappa
“I've often thought that the process of aging could be slowed down if it had to go through Congress.”
George Bush
“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”
James Madison
“During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.”
Al Gore
“I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Congress of Scientists”
Marquis de Condorcet
“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.
“The Internet interprets the US Congress as system damage and routes around it.”
Jeanne DeVoto
“I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.”
Robert E. Lee
“All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals”
John Quincy Adams
