This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby holds a hammer.
Will Rogers Quotes
A good man can’t do nothing in office because the System is against him, and a bad one can’t do anything for the same reason. So bad as we are, we are better off than any other nation, so what’s the use to worry?
Legislatures are like animals in a zoo. You can’t do anything bout ’em. All you can do is just stand and watch ’em.
The budget is a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical beans into it, and then tries to reach in and pull real beans out.
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.
There is good news from Washington today. Congress is deadlocked and can’t act.
There ought to be one day – just one – when there is open season on senators.
And kid Congress and the Senate, don’t scold em. They are just children that’s never grown up. They don’t like to be corrected in company. Don’t send messages to ’em, send candy.
With Congress – every time they make a joke it’s a law. And every time they make a law it’s a joke.
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; now what’s going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House.
