When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies.
Congress Quotes
Talk is cheap – except when Congress does it.
When dealing with Congress and the American people, it is necessary to make arguments “clearer than truth.”
As I think of this bill, and the fact that the more progress we make the deeper we go into the hole, I am reminded of a group of men who were working on a street. They had dug quite a number of holes. When they got through, they failed to puddle or tamp the […]
I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
She had read with unerring instinct one general characteristic of all Senators, a boundless and guileless thirst for flattery, engendered by daily draughts from political friends or dependents, then becoming a necessity like a dram, and swallowed with a heavy smile of ineffable content.
One time in the House of Representatives [a colleague] told me a story about a proposition that a teacher put to a boy. He said, ‘Johnny, a cat fell in a well 100 feet deep. Suppose that cat climbed up 1 foot and then fell back 2 feet. How long would it take the cat […]
Through reasonable discussion, through taking into account the views of many, Congress amends and refines legislative proposals so that once a law is passed it reflects the collective judgment of a diverse people.
There is in the Congress a collection of the greatest men upon this continent in point of abilities, virtues, and fortunes.
Our intent will not be to create gridlock. Oh, except maybe from time to time.
