Congress Quotes

There are lots more people in the House. I don’t know exactly – I’ve never counted, but at least a couple hundred. (on the difference between the House and Senate)

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.

I took the canal zone and let congress debate, and while the debate goes on the canal does also.

Don’t try to go too fast. Learn your job. Don’t ever talk until you know what you’re talking about… If you want to get along, go along.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer “present” or “not guilty.”

Son, if you can’t take their money, drink their whiskey, screw their women, and then vote against ’em, you don’t deserve to be here.

Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.

If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions.

A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.