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We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity but a...

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Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing after all.

He came away with an exasperated sense of failure. He denounced parliamentary government root and br...

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I respect the Congress's oversight responsibility.

It is not the role of Congress to decide legal cases between private parties. That is why we have co...

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Every man in it is a great man an orator a critic a statesman and therefore every man upon every...

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I was ecstatic when they re-named "French fries" as "freedom fries." Grown men and women in position...

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As heirs to a legacy more than two centuries old, it is understandable why present-day Americans wou...

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Jon StewartAmerica (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction

It is not unpatriotic to acknowledge America’s faults. No country is perfect… We can’t reach the top...

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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal...

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Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

After that cancellation [of the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas, after $2 billion had been s...

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Originally, Congress provided in 1793 that all foreign coins circulating in the United States be leg...

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Pro and con are opposites, that fact is clearly seen. If progress means to move forward, then what d...

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Congress may carry on the most wicked and pernicious of schemes under the dark veil of secrecy. The ...

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Members of Congress are like the voters in one respect -- they want to go with the winners.

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Ralph NaderOnly the Super-Rich Can Save Us!

I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat pean...

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I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a defic...

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The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The le...

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The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a ...

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