I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.
Barber B. Conable, Jr
Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.
Barber B. Conable, Jr
Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens -- and then everybody disagrees.
Boris Marshalov
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
Cullen Hightower
Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state.
David Dean Rusk
The Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I'll say no, and they'll push and I'll say no, and they'll push again. And all I can say to them is read my lips No New Taxes.
George Herbert Walker Bush
It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye.
George Pratt Shultz
If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing.
Harry S Truman
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had 600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
Lichty and Wagner
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