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Congress Quotes

Congress is not an ATM.

"Senators ask tough questions", www.cnn.com. September 10, 2003.

I think that Congress's ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.

U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 11, 2006.

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

Nassau William Senior, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe, Charles Sumner (1856). “American slavery: repr. of an article [by N.W. Senior, entitled Slavery in the United States] on 'Uncle Tom's cabin' [by H.E.B. Stowe] and of mr. Sumner's speech of the 19th and 20th of May, 1856. With a notice of the events which followed that speech”, p.143

That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury.

Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.56, Rowman & Littlefield

Some members of Congress are among the best actors in the world.

Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.119, Take Root Media

If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.

"In Their Own Words; Excerpts From The Remarks By Housing Secretary Kemp", www.nytimes.com. August 19, 1992.