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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.
William J. Brennan, Jr.
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Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress
Wendell Phillips
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The country and the Congress were misled into war. I regret that we were not given the truth; as I said more than a year ago, knowing what we know now, I would not have gone to war in Iraq. And knowing now the full measure of the Bush Administration’s d...
Senator John Kerry
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It would be hard to blame you for having trouble taking much of what is said in Washington seriously. You heard about the Medicare actuary who was forced to fudge the numbers and lie to Congress to keep his job. You heard the falsified numbers in Iraq on ...
Senator John Kerry
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Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.
Andy Grove
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The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
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Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.
Cullen Hightower
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I don`t think it`s the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.
Barber B. Conable, Jr.
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This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Will Rogers
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The mistakes made by Congress wouldn`t be so bad if the next Congress didn`t keep trying to correct them.
Cullen Hightower
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The mistakes made by Congress wouldn`t be so bad if the next Congress didn`t keep trying to correct them.
Cullen Hightower
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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.
Mark Twain
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Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
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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.
Abraham Lincoln
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A republican stands up in congress and says `I GOT A REALLY BAD IDEA!!` and the democrat stands up after him and says `AND I CAN MAKE IT SHITTIER!!`
Lewis Black
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If I studied all my life, I couldn`t think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
Will Rogers
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Congress: Bingo with billions
Red Skelton
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Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.
Donald Rumsfeld
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During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
Al Gore
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To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
Wendell Phillips
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I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.
James Madison
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[1985]: I`ve been criticized for going over the heads of the Congress. So, what`s the fuss? A lot of things go over their heads.
Ronald Reagan
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They`ve been running Deer Hunter like crazy on Bravo. And here is the whole goddamned Congress singing `God Bless America` on the steps of the US Capitol. I said, `Holy shit, this is the ending of the movie.` (on The Deer Hunter (1978) in hindsight, post-...
Michael Cimino
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On confessing his Communist ties before Congress: "I don`t think you have the foggiest notion of the contempt I have had for myself since the day I did that thing." (and years later:) "It`s the one thing in my life that I`m categorically ashamed of."
Sterling Hayden
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Washington, DC, May 2, 2007] The question is, who ought to make that decision? The Congress or the commanders? And as you know, my position is clear--I`m a commander guy.
George W. Bush
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[His opinion of the Klingon warriors he saw during a visit to the set of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987)]: I like them. They remind me of Congress.
Ronald Reagan
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[1966] It`s the thing to do, to tell all the teeny-boppers, "I dig The Beatles" and you sing a song like "Yesterday" or "Michelle". Hey, God knows, it`s such a cop-out, man, both of those songs. If you go into the Library of Congress, you`ll find stuff a ...
Bob Dylan
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I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. (special address to Congress, May 25, 1961)
John Kennedy
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We have right now a media that is willfully ignoring the high crimes and misdemeanors of the president of the United States. Clinton lied about a blow job, and got impeached by the media and Congress. Bush got us into the Iraq war based on lies that he kn...
Tim Robbins
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[September 20, 2001 - Speech to joint session of Congress]: Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice *will* be done.
George W. Bush
