Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.
Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.
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.
The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.
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.
With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke.
If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.
A republican stands up in congress and says 'I GOT A REALLY BAD IDEA!!' and the democrat stands up after him and says 'AND I CAN MAKE IT SHITTIER!!
To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.
You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
Congress: Bingo with billions.
The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.
Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.
I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.
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