Will Rogers Quotes

Open each session [of Congress] with a prayer and close it with a probe.

From time to time we must remind ourselves that the President has a role in the legislative process.

Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.

I would love to do an unauthorized biography about Congress... It's like a secret society up there.

The Senate of the United States has been both extravagantly praised and unreasonably disparaged, according to the predisposition and temper of its various critics…. The truth is, in this case as in so many others, something quite commonplace and practical. The Senate is just what the mode of its election and the conditions of public life in this country make it.

The people in Congress have no interest in preserving the Constitution because they are interested in power.

I entered Parliament with what I thought to be the lowest possible opinion of the average member. I came out with one still lower.

Congresscritters

Congress did not themselves wish to be investigated..

Donalt Trump has drained the swamp right into his Cabinet.

I've always been intrigued by the Senate, and admired many of the people who have served there.

Congress is where Americans are supposed to have our big, messy political fights. That's because the people who make the laws need to be hired and fired by the people. Don't like the laws? Fire the lawmakers.

I am a U.S. senator from North Carolina. I'm worried about doing the business on the Capitol Hill. I'm not going to get into the parlor games and the political discussions about a separate and co-equal branch.

I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don't understand the nature of government.

My number 1 priority is common sense, because we don't see a lot of that in the state capitol.

I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves.

Most senators are just going to work and trying to do a job.

There is also something called the Legislature. There is something called the press. There is something called people. These are all different players on the stage.

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

You can't win with some people. If you're not in government, you're criticised for being not serious. If you are in government, you're criticised for wanting power. That's the Labour party's line of attack, and it's a bit ridiculous.

If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives.

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.

When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate.

I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written.

Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.