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“In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. There could be only a quarter or a third as many congressmen or senators, and we would pick better ones then. But it's the system that we have always used, and there is no use getting all overcome with perspiration over it. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.”

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Author:Will Rogers

“The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.”

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Author:Newt Gingrich

“Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“I have done it [appointed commissions] regretfully and with the hope that it would be temporary. But after a commission is established you find it always wants to enlarge itself, employ more people, is very busy with Senators and Congressmen to impress upon them the great value of the services of the commission, and even when I talk to people that I appoint to commissions and tell them I would like them to go on to various boards with the idea that they may be abolished, they say they ought to be abolished, but when they have taken their position they very soon seem to change their mind.”

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Author:Calvin Coolidge

“Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep.”

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Book:The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy

Source: The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy

“What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country.”

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Author:Bill Maher