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“Congress is deadlocked and can’t act.”

Author:Will Rogers

Source: Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)

“Congress is debating a kill switch that would allow President Obama to freeze all activity on the internet if there was a national emergency. The kill switch goes by the top-secret code name 'Microsoft Windows.'”

Ifs Names President Secret Internet Activity Window Congress Code President Obama Emergencies Microsoft Freeze Top Secret

Author:Conan O'Brien

“Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.”

People Smart Congress Decent Devoted Public Service Smart People

Author:Jonathan Haidt

“Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.”

Ifs Way Wells Moving Father Democracy Understood Responsible Majority Congress Founding

Author:Barber Conable

“Congress is furious at the Secret Service for consorting with hookers, which has traditionally been Congress's role.”

Funny Secret Roles Congress Comedian Usa Legislature Furious Secret Service Funny Political

Author:Andy Borowitz

“Congress is going to start tinkering with the Ten Commandments just as soon as they find someone in Washington who has read them.”

Ten Congress Commandments Ten Commandments Tinkering

Author:Will Rogers

“Congress is good at doing two things: one is nothing, and the other is overreacting.”

Two Congress Two Things

Author:Hal Abelson

“Congress is hard to deal with, dealing with, you know, multiple parliaments and commissions and unions and this and that and the other, that's very complicated.”

Knows Hard Deals Unions Congress Complicated Multiple Parliament

Author:Barack Obama

“Congress is headed in the wrong direction with this bill which removes any and all incentives from the food industry to improve their products for children.”

Children Products Industry Bills Congress Remove Incentives Wrong Direction Food Industry

Author:Bob Filner

“Congress is like first grade, only not as well behaved.”

Firsts Wells Congress Grades

Author:Sean Patrick Maloney

“Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.”

Home Congress Ideological

Author:Nandan Nilekani

“Congress is not a party which fades when not in power”

Party Congress Fades

Author:P. Chidambaram

“Congress is not an ATM.”

Congress Aggravation Atm

Author:Robert Byrd

“Congress is responsible for every major change in India”

Majors India Responsible Congress Major Change

Author:Sonia Gandhi

“Congress is responsible for everything and unable to do anything, hated by the public creditors, insulted by the soldiers and unsupported by the citizens.”

Revolution Citizens Responsible Soldier Congress Hated American Revolution Insulted Creditors

Author:Benjamin Hawkins

“Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.”

Feels Play Interest Justice Progress Solutions Fairs Congress Corporate Frustrated Fair Play

Author:E. L. Doctorow

“Congress is supposed to fund the IRS, and it has been steadily reducing the number of auditors and tax collectors the IRS has at the very time that the tax system has become vastly more complicated. And of course America continues to grow, so there's an increasing number of tax returns coming in. The IRS responds by doing exactly what Congress expects of them. That shouldn't surprise anyone. All bureaucracies do what they are told.”

Taxes Surprise Complicated Fund Bureaucracy

Author:David Cay Johnston

“Congress is supposed to provide oversight, the voters are supposed to provide oversight. And you [the media] were supposed to provide oversight. That's why you have special liberties and that's why you have special protections.”

Liberty Special Media Congress Protection Ass Voters Bad Ass Oversight

Author:Trey Gowdy

“Congress is the great enabler, constitutionally, for progressive society, and it's the great graveyard, the way it's been behaving, against a prosperous society, or another billionaire or two.”

Way Two Congress Progressive Prosperous Billionaire Graveyard Enablers Progressive Society

Author:Ralph Nader

“Congress is the Justin Bieber of our government”

Government Congress Justin

Author:Jon Stewart

“Congress is the most powerful branch. It can expand a progressive society, or it can block a progressive society.”

Powerful Congress Block Branches Most Powerful Progressive Progressive Society

Author:Ralph Nader

“Congress is the third branch of government... which makes every one of the 535 members of Congress 1/535th of that important one-third, which works out to, hmmm, well, someone else can do the math. You wouldn't think such little wheels could make so much noise.”

Thinking Wells Littles Important Government Can Do Members Thirds Congress Work Out Math Noise Wheels Branches Hmmm Branches Of Government

Author:Wesley Pruden

“Congress is thinking about eliminating a federal program under which scientists broadcast signals to Alien beings. This would be a large mistake. Alien beings have atomic blaster death cannons. You cannot cut off their federal programs as if they were merely poor people.”

People Ifs Thinking Would Be Poor Mistake Cutting Program Scientist Congress Aliens Signals Poor People Eliminating Cannons

Author:Dave Barry

“Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.”

People Believe Mean Politician Congress Compromise Capitulation

Author:Emanuel Cleaver

“Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two Judiciary Committees, all of whom are lawyers, and the Congress is predominately a lawyers' body.”

Two Body Law Congress Lawyer Committees Legislation Commonplace Unfamiliar Judiciary Layman

Author:Felix Frankfurter

“Congress knew Coolidge would veto the farm bill. There was more politics than relief in that bill.”

Bills Congress Relief Farms Agriculture Veto

Author:Will Rogers

“Congress may be going home for the holidays soon. How can you beat a Christmas gift like that?”

May Home Beats Congress Holiday Going Home Christmas Gift Home For The Holidays

Author:Bob Hope

Source: Bob Hope

“Congress may carry on the most wicked and pernicious of schemes under the dark veil of secrecy. The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.”

Liberty Democracy Congress Secrecy Democracy In America Secret Law

Author:Patrick Henry

“Congress meets tomorrow morning. Let us all pray: Oh Lord, give us strength to bear that which is about to be inflicted upon us. Be merciful with them, oh Lord, for they know not what they're doing. Amen.”

Knows Giving Politics Lord Morning Bears Praying Tomorrow Congress Merciful Amen Tomorrow Morning

Author:Will Rogers

“Congress Mukt Bharat BJP ka naara nahi hai, jan jan ka sankalp hai. Be it dynasty politics, nepotism, corruption, communalism, divisions in society or poverty, getting freedom from all this is what I mean by a Congress Mukt Bharat.”

Mean Politics Poverty India Congress Corruption Division Dynasty Nepotism Bharat Bjp Communalism

Author:Narendra Modi

“Congress must also enact pro-growth policies that encourage the economy to expand: like making tax relief permanent and repealing the death tax.”

Growth Economy Policy Taxes Congress Permanent Relief Repealing

Author:Michael Steele

“Congress must go further to protect the right to privacy, to end the NSA's dragnet surveillance of ordinary Americans, to make the intelligence community more transparent and accountable.”

Ends Community Protect Ordinary Congress Privacy Transparent Surveillance Nsa Intelligence Community Right To Privacy

Author:Elizabeth Warren

“Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.”

Action Nations Animal Common Clear Waste Clean Congress Farmers Site Liability Hazardous Waste

Author:Ike Skelton

“Congress must not do something just for the sake of doing something. We must carefully and thoughtfully consider the implications of any action and whether that action will help or hinder our ultimate mission of protecting U.S. citizens from terror.”

Helping Action Citizens Ultimate Sake Congress Terror Missions Implications Hinder

Author:Richard Burr

“Congress must take responsibility for a new positive direction - an innovative agenda that will lead to a more secure America. Secure communities, secure economies, and a secure quality of life.”

America Community Quality Responsibility Economy Congress Secure Agendas Taking Responsibility Innovative Quality Of Life

Author:Rick Larsen

“Congress needs strong parties, but it also needs the capacity to deal with budget and entitlement challenges that are likely beyond the reach of pure partisan exertion.”

Needs Strong Challenges Deals Party Pure Capacity Congress Budgets Entitlement Partisans Exertion

Author:David Price

“Congress needs to send a strong signal that direct communication with the leader of the free world is a privilege, particularly for a regime that has been as hostile as Iran has been towards America for more than three decades. President Rouhani needs to take these two simple steps to demonstrate good faith before any further discussions.”

“Congress needs to step up. Congress needs to do their job, and Congress needs to do their job now.”

Author:Mike Pence

“Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.”

Loses Capacity Congress Disappoint

Author:John Oliver

“Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.”

War Ends Machines Constitution Congress Budgets

Author:Gore Vidal

“Congress Party of India has destroyed itself and the whole opposition to serve a one Gandhi Family. Instead of giving opportunity to young and talented leaders, they are busy launching 'same product' again and again.”

Indian Politics

Author:Roshan Sharma

“Congress passed the 1887 General Allotment Act. And that act ended up dispossessing tribes of 90 million acres. That history of dispossession was also accompanied by a history of forced assimilation whether it was in residential schools, whether it was in dismantling traditional tribal governance structures. And the justifications for that is that you're not as good as us. Our systems are better. Our modes of education. Our ways of owning land, our ways of working have been continually cited to Indians as the reason for these government policies.”

Reason School Policy Justification Assimilation

Author:Robert A. Williams, Jr.

“Congress passes bills that appropriate money. Congress says, 'We're building this bridge or funding that defense project, and they cost this much.'”

Building Cost Projects Bills Congress Defense Bridges Appropriate Funding

Author:Jay Carney

“Congress remains in total denial as our liberties are rapidly fading before our eyes. The process is propelled by unwarranted fear and ignorance as to the true meaning of liberty. It is driven by economic myths, fallacies and irrational good intentions.”

Eye Process Liberty Economic Ignorance Remains Intention Congress Myth Driven Denial Irrational Good Intentions Fallacy Fading True Meaning

Author:Ron Paul

“Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.”

States Members Draws Congress Pregnancy

Author:Thomas E. Mann

“Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.”

Ideas Problem Seems Cases Meetings Congress Extremes Hearing

Author:Shirley Chisholm

Source: Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition

“Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.”

Matter Seems Government Promise Congress Priorities Locals Passing Passings Thrive Mandates Breaking Promises Local Government

Author:Jared Polis

“Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.”

Men Want Seems Government Known Taxes Congress Ill Cures Aggravation Unconstitutional High Taxes

Author:Charley Reese

“Congress shall also create a tax code weighing more than the combined poundage of the largest member of the House and the largest member of the Senate, plus a standard musk ox.”

House Taxes Members Standards Congress Code Plus Senate Weighing Musk

Author:Dave Barry

Source: Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway

“Congress shall have Power . . . to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Time to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.”

Writing Art Education Progress Discovery Congress Exclusive Inventor Patents Unpatriotic Limited Time Copyright Law Section 8

Author:James Madison

Source: The Origin of the Nation: Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights and Other Amendments, Federalist Papers & Common Sense: Creating America - Landmark Documents that Shaped a New Nation