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Letter "C" » congress
«I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.»
Author: Barber B. Conable, Jr.
| About:
Congress
| Keywords:
congress, drag, heeled, heels, on the way
«I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Congress of Scientists»
Author: Marquis de Condorcet
| Keywords:
bringing, congress, Congress of, People of, scientists, well-educated, worldwide
«I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress»
«I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but gentlemen, these men are not in the race.»
Author: Sam Rayburn
(Lawyer, Politician)
| Keywords:
congress, district, districts, gentlemen, qualified, qualifies, qualifying, The District, well-qualified
«It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
| Keywords:
congress, dispose, disposes, dispose of, disposing, privilege, propose, proposing, The Congress, the President
«It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
American, class, congress, Congress of, criminal, distinctly, facts, figures, no show, shown, The Criminals
«I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US congress»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
at times, Commandments, congress, Moses, Ten Commandments, The Ten, The Ten Commandments, the US, the US Congress, wondered
«I served with General Washington in the Legislature of Virginia... and... with Dr. Franklin in Congress. I never heard either of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main point.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
at a time, congress, Dr., Dr, franklin, legislature, Legislatures, main, point in time, served, Virginia, Washington
«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?»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
by the hour, congress, errs, fifty, Fifty one, lawyers, one hundred, one hundred fifty, send, trade, yield
«I never lack material for my humor column when Congress is in session.»
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