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.
Congress Quotes
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.
Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens – and then everybody disagrees.
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.
In your country club, your church and business, about 15 percent of the people are screwballs, lightweights and boobs and you would not want those people unrepresented in Congress.
