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• If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

  Thomas Jefferson

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  Tags in Congress, People, Everything, Present, Trade

• This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

  Will Rogers

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Congress, Hold, Same

• The country and the Congress were misled into war. I regret that we were not given the truth; as I said more than a year ago, knowing what we know now, I would not have gone to war in Iraq. And knowing now the full measure of the Bush Administrations duplicity and incompetence, I doubt there are many members of Congress who would give them the authority they abused so badly. I know I would not.

  John Kerry

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  Tags in Authority, Congress, Incompetent, Iraq, Bush Administration, War

• May I now pass on to this Congress advice which I received recently from a fellow Vermonter – Either impeach him or get off his back.

  Howard Aiken

  Topics in Advice

  Tags in Congress

• We in Congress stand by Israel. In Congress, we speak with one voice on the subject of Israel.

  Nancy Pelosi

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• The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.

  Will Rogers

  Tags in Congress, Every Time

• If I studied all my life, I couldn’t think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

  Will Rogers

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• From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress.

  Carl Albert

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• We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there’s a bunch of us.

  Gary Ackerman

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• It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.

  Joe Baca

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• We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Tags in Congress, Constitution, Rightful

• I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Tags in Congress, Debate

• It would be hard to blame you for having trouble taking much of what is said in Washington seriously. You heard about the Medicare actuary who was forced to fudge the numbers and lie to Congress to keep his job. You heard the falsified numbers in Iraq on everything from the cost of the war to the number of trained Iraqi troops to a slam dunk case for weapons of mass destruction. You heard about the administration sponsored fake newscasts to mislead people all across America.

  John Kerry

  Tags in Congress, Washington