The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.
Congress Quotes
There is good news from Washington today. Congress is deadlocked and can’t act.
Congress: Bingo with billions.
Many an American Congressman comes to Washington from a district attorney’s office: you may be sure that he is seldom promoted because he has been jealous of the liberties of the citizen.
There ought to be one day – just one – when there is open season on senators.
The Senate has been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity. (in reference to Senator Joseph McCarthy, 1950)
Suppose two-thirds of the members of the national House of Representatives were dumped into the Washington garbage incinerator tomorrow, what would we lose to offset our gain of their salaries and the salaries of their parasites?
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.
(My dog) can bark like a congressman, fetch like an aide, beg like a press secretary and play dead like a receptionist when the phone rings.
I think Congress has spent enough time on ethics. I think its time they moved on to something else.
