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)
Congress Quotes
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.
With Congress – every time they make a joke it’s a law. And every time they make a law it’s a joke.
If you mean whiskey, the devil’s brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster that defiles innocence, dethrones reason, destroys the home, creates misery and poverty, yea, literally takes the bread from the mouths of little children; if you mean that evil drink that topples Christian men and women from the pinnacles of righteous and gracious […]
Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; now what’s going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House.
It is not to the scrip of parchment on which the Constitution was originally enrolled, that we are to look for the people’s rights. Instead of looking for the people’s rights, it is there you (Congress) must search for your powers. It is in that instrument, the people have told you what they have given; […]
