History Quote by David McCullough

“Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it…

— Anonymous

“Members of Congress are like the voters in one respect -- they want to go with the winners.”

— Ralph Nader

“Too much of our history will seem to have taken place in the halls of capitols, where the accusers have mostly been guilty, and…

— Wendell Berry

“Today’s Congress is a polarized, dysfunctional body, rendered helpless by partisanship, more focused on scoring short-term political points than on solving our nation’s urgent…

— Al Franken

“And somehow it all contributed to one of the most delicious bouts of accusation, blame, and name-calling ever to be witnessed outside of reality…

— David Skinner

“...the wreckage of representative government is strewn with broken promises.”

— Herbert Hoover

“We grow justly weary of our politics. But we must remember this: Politics - in all its grubby, grasping, corrupt, contemptible manifestations - is…

— Charles Krauthammer

“Congress may carry on the most wicked and pernicious of schemes under the dark veil of secrecy. The liberties of a people never were,…

— Patrick Henry

“I hate to admit it, but governmental deviousness is usually better explained by incompetence, vanity, and the need to protect one's job at all…

— Jasper Fforde

“The President and the Congress are all very well in their way. They can say what they think they think, but it rests with…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“When people start believing that all politicians are liars and crooks, the truly corrupt escape scrutiny, and cynicism grows.”

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“Today Congress operates not as the Framers intended, but in the shadows, where it dreams up its most notorious and oppressive laws, coming into…

— Mark R. Levin