Quotes on Congress

“Americans have the best Congress money can buy.” Ted Kennedy

“Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, while Congress in its committee rooms is Congress at work.” Woodrow Wilson

“Congress is a bastion of negation.” Professor Denenberg

“Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens – and then everyone disagrees.” Alexander Wiley

“It’s a lot easier to kill legislation than pass legislation.” Dan Quayle

“Leadership is difficult precisely because the framers of the Constitution wanted it to be so.” Cronin and Genovese

“Our Congress today is a forum for legalized bribery.” Thomas Friedman

“The voting card we hold in our pocket belongs to our people back home.” Allen Boyd

“Though the President is commander-in-chief, Congress is his commander.” Thaddeus Stevens

“What can I do? What can I even get passed in the Senate?” Harry Reid

“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” Rahm Emanuel

“You will wonder how the hell you got here, and after that you will wonder how the hell the rest of us got here.” Senator J. Hamilton Lewis to Harry Truman