Body Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise, in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers,…

— Thomas Jefferson

“If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150 lawyers,…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour

— Thomas Jefferson

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.

— Cullen Hightower

'Talk is cheap, ESPECIALLY when Congress does it!'

— Andrew Guzaldo

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

— Boris Marshalov

Talking with most people usually involves a search for truth. Talking with congressmen is strictly special effects.

— Jack McDevitt

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

— Robert Blaha

In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any…

— Franklin Pierce

Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to…

— Shirley Chisholm

Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who…

— E. L. Doctorow

Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two…

— Felix Frankfurter