Quotes of Gathering - somelinesforyou

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

- Mark Twain

“ Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens — and then everybody disagrees. ”

- Boris Marshalov

“ This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. ”

- Will Rogers

“ It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it. ”

- Cullen Hightower

“ Whenever God erects a house of prayer The devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation. ”

- Daniel Defoe

“ Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session. ”

- Judge Gideon J. Tucker

“ A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.). ”

- Dale Dauten

“ For the first time, Congress will take a detailed look at why the primary guardians of Enron's shareholders were unable to protect them. ”

- Susan Collins

“ I think there has to be greater heed paid by the Security Council members to military advice. ”

- Alex Morrison

“ The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, 'What a lovely sermon!' but 'I will do something.'. ”

- Billy Graham

“ Now I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, "How in a free country such as this, can we ban video games and golf, yet continue to permit stamp collecting? ”

- Dave Barry

“ It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose. ”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“ Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy. ”

- Maury Amsterdam

“ One difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. ”

- Will Rogers

“ One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. ”

- W. H. Auden

“ Night is the mother of counsels. ”

- George Herbert

“ Lobbyists are not permitted in our meetings and are not involved in the program in any way. ”

- Dick Clark

“ Never again' is the rallying cry for all who believe that mankind must speak out against genocide. ”

- Jon Corzine

“ What this country needs is a Congress capable of voting more intelligently than the voters who elect it. ”

- Evan Esar

“ Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information. - Kurt Vonnegut. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck. ”

- Anthony Robbins

“ All science is either physics or stamp collecting. - E. Rutherford. ”

- E. Rutherford

“ The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place. ”

- Barry Goldwater

“ When you have a taste for exceptional people, you always end up meeting them everywhere. ”

- Mac Orlan

“ One German makes a philosopher, two a public meeting, three a war. ”

- Robert D. MacDonald

“ I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies. ”

- Boris Pasternak

“ They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. ”

- Clare Booth Luce

“ The most eloquent silence; that of two mouths meeting in a kiss. ”

- Unknown
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