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2008 January 11
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"Why, if we had to do that we could not pass most of the laws we enact around here...
Americans just want us to solve America's problems of health and safety -- and not be concerned if they can be constitutionally justified." |
"Congress is continually appointing fact-finding committees,
when what we really need are some fact-facing committees." |
"Welcome to the U.S. Capitol: Watch for falling expectations." |
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2008 January 10
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"Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights
could get through Congress today?
It wouldn't even get out of committee." |
"The Senate being tied is a start. Now, if only it could be gagged." |
"Every bureaucrat has a constitutional right
to fuzzify, profundify and drivelate.
It's a part of our freedom of speech...
If people can understand what is being said in Washington,
they might want to take over their own government again." |
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2008 January 09
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"Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature." |
"Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings
of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?" |
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2008 January 08
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"Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can." |
"All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and
a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity." |
"Reader, suppose you were an idiot.
And suppose you were a member of Congress.
But I repeat myself." |
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2008 January 07
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"Hurray! Congress is to adjourn!
Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury!" |
"A foreigner coming here and reading the Congressional Record would
say that the President of the United States was elected solely for the
purpose of giving Senators somebody to call a horse thief." |
"That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for --
to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury." |
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