I took the canal zone and let congress debate, and while the debate goes on the canal does also.
Congress Quotes
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.
The best advice I ever received was back in 1958 when i was playing the piano in a bar on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. A congressman came up to me ans said, “Kid, stop singing ‘Stardust’ and start singing about Congress. We are funny. Pay attention to us and you will have a brand-new […]
What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country.
The budget is a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical beans into it, and then tries to reach in and pull real beans out.
