In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
The government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5'7", it is impossible to get your congressman on the phone.
...[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among other things, it treated working women with complete equality. While in this respect the English, and still more the gallant French, are burdened with a spirit of narrow-mindedness. Anybody who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex (the ugly ones included).
4 in 5 Americans disapprove of the job Congress is doing, which begs the question: Are 1 in 5 Americans retarded?

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.
You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.