Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [141-160] of 194 Congress quotesCongress QuotesCongress Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes We even had to pass a special law in the Congress just a few weeks ago to allow student prayer groups the same access to school rooms after classes that a Young Marxist Society … would already enjoy.~ Ronald Reagan As we struggle to teach our children … we dare not forget that our civilization was built by men and women who placed their faith in a loving God. If Congress can begin each day with a moment of prayer … so then can our sons and daughters.~ Ronald Reagan Government does not tax to get the money it needs; government always finds a need for the money it gets.~ Ronald Reagan Are you entitled to the fruits of your labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?~ Ronald Reagan Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of the progressive tax, and demand a return to traditional proportionate taxation? ... Today in our country the tax collector's share is 37 cents of every dollar earned. Freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp.~ Ronald Reagan Congress is extraordinarily reluctant to inject itself into foreign policy. It has dumped entirely its constitutional duty for money onto a central bank, and for trade, onto the executive branch. It seems to never know what the CIA and other intelligence agencies are doing. Like the Romans, they no longer talk of the republic or liberty. And like the Romans, the American people, or most of them anyway, don’t seem to care. ... Like the Romans, we no longer have a citizen army but professional legions, and whether they wear jackboots or not, some federal officers seem to regard Americans with about the same compassion as the Praetorian Guard had for the plebes. As in Rome, the air is full of suspicion, intrigues and conspiracies, real or imagined, and the air reeks of greed and opportunism. As those on the Tiber, the rulers on the Potomac have grown suspicious of the people, don’t trust them and, in some cases fear them. And, as in Rome, they grovel in luxury while taking 40 cents on the dollar out of the sweat of working people to pay for corn and circuses to keep the mob satisfied. ~ Charley Reese If we could manage our own finances the way the Congress does the nation’s, we’d all be living in high cotton and eating high on the hog.~ Charley Reese The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality.~ William H. Rehnquist A foreigner coming here and reading the Congressional Record would say that the President of the United States was elected solely for the purpose of giving Senators somebody to call a horse thief.~ Will Rogers Hurray! Congress is to adjourn! Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury!~ Will Rogers If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can't protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don't need to change our lobbies, we need to change our representatives.~ Will Rogers That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury.~ Will Rogers There is good news from Washington today. The Congress is deadlocked and can't act.~ Will Rogers You see, in Washington they have these bodies, Senate and the House of Representatives. That is for the convenience of the visitors. If there is nothing funny happening in one, there is sure to be in the other, and in case one body passes a good bill, why, the other can see it in time and kill it.~ Will Rogers If we took Congress seriously, we would be worrying all the time.~ Will Rogers Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?~ Will Rogers All one has to do to get one's stuff in the Congressional Record is to find a stenographer that can stay awake long enough to take it down. Then you mark in the 'Applause' and 'Laughter' parts yourself.~ Will Rogers Farmers, get out your sense of humor! Congress meets to relieve you again next week.~ Will Rogers It sure did kick up some excitement in the Senate when one Senator called the other Senators 'sons of Wild jackasses.' Well, if you thought it made the Senators hot, you wait till you see what happens when the jackasses hear how they have been slandered.~ Will Rogers This stuff they are talking here in Congress costs the people of the United States $44 a page. That's beside what it costs to ship it to the asylums where it's read.~ Will Rogers Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print