If the Congress wants to bring the Panamanian economy to its knees, why doesn't it just go down there and run it? Ronald Wilson Reagan

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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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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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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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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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• welfare

If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions. James Madison

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Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated. Thomas Jefferson

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No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session. Judge Gideon Tucker

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• taxes

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. P. J. O'Rourke

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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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As long as we have a government that can exploit peaceful, hardworking Americans on behalf of special interests, as long as it can make or break any American business with (for example) tax policy, politically motivated antitrust prosecutions, and ill-considered regulation, and in general as long as economic winners and losers can be determined in Washington, people will want to assure their share of the loot by influencing the political process through money. Campaign finance reform focuses on the symptom rather than the problem. Ron Paul

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When I see a congressman giving his opinion on something, I always wonder if it represents his real opinion or if it represents an opinion that he's designed in order to be elected. It seems to be a central problem for politicians. So I often wonder: what is the relation of integrity to working in the government? Richard Feynman

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It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones. Calvin Coolidge

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