Clapping Quote by Mark Udall

A president just can't make much showing against congress. They lay awake nights, thinking up things to be against the president on.

— Will Rogers

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

— Boris Marshalov

“Being in the audience of the State of the Union is not a passive experience. Every few minutes when the president completed a thought,…

— Noah Galloway

When a president speaks, it's to multiple audiences.

— Dana Perino

And in another point of view, I think it is right that the address of a president should be on his own subject, and…

— Arthur Cayley

When any body of statesmen make public asservations by one or various voices, that there is no discord among them, not a dissentient voice…

— Anthony Trollope

Let me make it clear that I do not assert that a President and the Congress must on all points agree with each other…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Come Senators, Congressmen, Please heed the call, Don’t stand in the doorways, Don’t block up the halls…For the times they are a changin’.”

— Jeffrey D. Sachs

On the House side, when Donald Trump came, he received multiple standing ovations.

— Ryan Zinke

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise,…

— Madeleine Albright

So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which…

— Suzanne Collins

I am aware that people at large are constantly angry with the Congress because they feel we are shouting. We are making noise, but…

— Sonia Gandhi