Congress Quotes

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I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch. — Bob Woodward
As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon… — Ron Wyden
I wasn't predicted to be anything. I just followed an inner spirit, and it put me in the right place and the right time. I… — Andrew Young
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. — Frank Zappa
Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you. — John Oliver
Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops. — Edward Abbey
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… — Thomas Jefferson
When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great armistices… — Neal A. Maxwell
The bill Congress sent me would take away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror...so today I vetoed it — George W. Bush
Little Bush says we are at war, but we are not at war because to be at war Congress has to vote for it. He… — Gore Vidal
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… — Lewis Black
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference… — Patrick Henry
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,… — James Madison
Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit -- in state, in church… — Chinua Achebe
What do Americans know about morality? They don't want their presidents to have penises but they don't mind if their presidents covertly arrange to support… — John Irving
Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited.… — Barry Goldwater
Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its contemporary society, that… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Carnal embrace is sexual congress, which is the insertion of the male genital organ into the female genital organ for purposes of procreation and pleasure.… — Tom Stoppard
Show me a cultural relativist at 30,000 feet and I'll show you a hypocrite ... If you are flying to an international congress of anthropologists… — Richard Dawkins
Congress should ban advertising that preys upon children, it should stop subsidizing dead-end jobs, it should pass tougher food safety laws, it should protect American… — Eric Schlosser
So here we have found a means of a) alienating even the most flexible and patient Palestinians; while b) frustrating the efforts of the more… — Christopher Hitchens
I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered,… — Bertrand Russell
I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3%… — Warren Buffett
Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade... — Ayn Rand
Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations. — Diane Ravitch

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