Top Congress Quotes

The new dumb, is now wisdom.

The first revolution is to transform the status of evaluation from untouchable to respectable , i.e., from the days a century ago when the value-free doctrine held that there could be no place for the...

Congress Definition

(n.) A meeting of individuals, whether friendly or hostile; an encounter.

(n.) A sudden encounter; a collision; a shock; -- said of things.

(n.) The coming together of a male and female in sexual commerce; the act of coition.

(n.) A gathering or assembly; a conference.

(n.) A formal assembly, as of princes, deputies, representatives, envoys, or commissioners; esp., a meeting of the representatives of several governments or societies to consider and determine matters of common interest.

(n.) The collective body of senators and representatives of the people of a nation, esp. of a republic, constituting the chief legislative body of the nation.

(n.) The lower house of the Spanish Cortes, the members of which are elected for three years.

Leaders who do not help the people must be replaced by the people.

The thing they're trying to stop is 30-million people getting health insurance. That's the substance.

Our legislators have not yet learned the comparative value of free-trade and of freedom, of union, and of rectitude, to a nation. They have no genius or talent for comparatively humble questions of ta...

Every man in it is a great man an orator a critic a statesman and therefore every man upon every question must show his oratory his criticism and his political abilities.

Earmarks are almost always inserted by a member of Congress without any notice to other members, and without a chance for Congress as a whole to debate a particular earmark as they relate to national...

It's lawmakers know better than anyone that laws are more a matter of practical compromise than any kind of moral imperative.

I was ecstatic when they re-named "French fries" as "freedom fries." Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.

Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.

Pro and con are opposites, that fact is clearly seen. If progress means to move forward, then what does congress mean?

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.

Anarchists have taken over (the GOP).

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing after all.

Since September 11th Congress has created the Department of Homeland Security, more than doubled the homeland security budget and implemented a bipartisan overhaul of our intelligence systems.

Decisions to cut aid for the terminally ill, for the elderly, for dependent children, for food stamps, even school lunches, are being made by men with full stomachs who live in comfortable houses with...