"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?"

"Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment"

"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money"

"Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends"

"There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous"

"The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets"

"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution"

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

"If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress"