Congressman Quote by Tom Feeney

It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money.

— Arthur Laffer

To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.

— Ronald Reagan

It's not fair to say that Congress spends money like a drunk sailor. At least the sailor is spending his own money!

— Ronald Reagan

In all lands, sailors form a race apart. They profess a congenital contempt for landlubbers. As for the tradesman, he understands nothing of sailors…

— Honore de Balzac

Drinking rum before 10 am makes you a pirate, not an alcoholic.

— Granger Smith

A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to…

— Sterling Hayden

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides,…

— David Lloyd George

There are good sailors. Well, some good sailors. In a way they are ideal as husbands. They drop in every six months for a…

— Kerry Greenwood

Ships are but boards, sailors but men.

— William Shakespeare

The difference between a drunk and a alcoholic is that a drunk doesn't have to attend all those meetings.

— W. Arthur Lewis

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in…

— Samuel Johnson

The impossibility of keeping Englishmen sober ashore was a constant source of complaint, It was the great weakness of 16th century English infantrymen, whose…

— Nicholas Rodger