Burden Quote by Jacob Weisberg

The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They…

— James K. Polk

Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. They're damn boring. They have no imagination, and they don't know how to imagine the future.

— Ray Bradbury

Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores.

— Ray Bradbury

Members of Congress are people too.

— Dana Bash

Unfortunately, most of Congress has little to offer except making noise and knowing how to move up the bloated political chain.

— Robert Blaha

It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.

— Avi Rubin

I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.

— Anonymous

The Congress is a power-oriented party.

— Sharad Pawar

Only Congress can authorize using AI to right-size the sprawling federal code, and we should.

— Jon Husted

My congressional record speaks for itself, and my ability to build coalitions locally, nationally and across the aisles in Congress is transparent.

— Danny K. Davis

Congress is not an ATM.

— Robert Byrd

“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