Today, I’ve decided to print some quotes about the American Congress – that noble group of elected officials who seem to have forgotten who they work for.  Not much has changed since the beginning of our independence.

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.” Mark Twain

“With Congress, every time they make a joke it’s a law, and every time they make a law it’s a joke.”  Will Rogers

“We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.”   J. William Fulbright

“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?”  Thomas Jefferson

“Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time… its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.”   Shirley Chisholm

“Congress does two things well.  Nothing and overreacting.”  Michael Oxley

“I was ecstatic when they re-named “French fries” as “freedom fries.” Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.”
― Johnny Depp