The Senate is a placed filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it’s a pretty good detour.
Congress Quotes
All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.
Mr. (John Quincy) Adams chose wisely and according to his constitution, when, on leaving the Presidency, he went into Congress. He is no literary old gentleman, but a bruiser, and loves the melee. When they talk about his age and venerableness and nearness to the grave, he knows better, he is like one of those […]
On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a surrender of that power to them? If so, how many rebellions should we have had already?
For some reason, leather bound copies of the goings on in Congress lined the shelves of our living room and I poured (sic) over them when I was twelve. I had never read anything so funny. From then on I knew I wanted to do comedy.
The politics of crime is not about a party’s record or a candidates proposals, but about perceived character and values.
I like the power given the Legislature to levy taxes, and for that reason solely approve of the greater house being chosen by the people directly.
If you give Congress a chance to vote on both sides of an issue, it will always do it.
Anthony tried to imagine himself in congress rooting around the litter of that incredible pigsty with the narrow and precise brows he saw pictured sometimes in the rotogravure sections of the Sunday newspapers, those glorified proletarians babbling blandly to the nation the ideas of high-school seniors! Little men with copy-bookambitions who by mediocrity had thought […]
Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.
