Administration Quote by Cynthia McKinney

Holding Congressional hearings is the purview of the majority, and during the first years of the Obama administration, Democrats could not be bothered.

— Matt Gaetz

A Conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words.

— John Lennon

Silence is complicity. All Republicans who stand mute in the face of Trump's latest racism are telling you who they really are.

— Max Boot

The term congressional hearing is an oxymoron. No congressional hearing is ever called to gather information. Rather, it is an exercise designed strictly for…

— Jack McDevitt

The hearings are just like a snake about to devour people.

— Pat Nixon

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

— Samuel Johnson

It has been my experience that the hearings are really, in effect, a subtle minuet, with the nominee answering as many questions as he…

— Arlen Specter

“I have only a very brief opening statement. I welcome these hearings because of the opportunity that they provide to the American people to…

— Richard Clarke

The silence caused by politicizing speech is deafening.

— Pete Hoekstra

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

— Che Guevara

Congressional investigations...are still being held on the problem of unidentified flying objects and the problem is one in which there is quite a bit…

— William Hanes Ayres

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - and then everybody disagrees.

— Boris Marshalov