Aaron Russo - Milton Berle - Robert Reich - Mark Twain - Anatole France - Will Rogers - Howard Zinn - Nicholas Biddle - James K Polk - Thomas Jefferson - Red Skelton - Mark Udall - Victor Hugo - H L Mencken - Plutocracy: Political Repression in the USA 2015 -
5,471. Silence is golden but when it comes to your freedom it’s yellow. We have to stop being scared. We have to stand up and do what’s necessary, to stop these bankers, this elite, this government full of lies, these Congressmen full of liars ... There is a rising tide but we have to mobilise. (Freedom & Banksters & New World Order & Congress & Solidarity) Aaron Russo, interview Alex Jones
6,598. You can lead a man to Congress, but you can’t make him think. (Think & Congress) Milton Berle
49,777. The dirty little secret is that both Houses of Congress are irrelevant. America’s domestic policy is now being run by Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve. America's foreign policy is now being run by the International Monetary Fund. When the President decides to go to war, he no longer needs a declaration of war from Congress. (Democracy & War & War on Terror & Empire US & Fascism & Congress & Government: Secret & Federal Reserve & IMF & United States of America) Robert Reich, 7th January 1999 USA Today, member of Clinton’s Cabinet
68,146. Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. (Congress & Idiot) Mark Twain
68,147. It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress. Mark Twain
68,148. America – where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments. (Congress & Law) Anatole France
68,149. The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets. (Congress & Tax) Will Rogers
68,150. With Congress every time they make a joke it’s a law, and every time they make a law it’s a joke. Will Rogers
68,151. There obviously was a kind of culture of timidity in Congress, deference to the executive branch, and the fear of being called unpatriotic. Howard Zinn
68,152. Nothing but widespread suffering will produce any effect on Congress. Nicholas Biddle
68,153. There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the US. James K Polk
68,154. If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour? Thomas Jefferson
68,155. Congress: bingo with billions. Red Skelton
68,156. There is no getting around it: Congress is failing the American people. Mark Udall
68,157. I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses. Victor Hugo
68,158. Congress consists of one third, more or less, scoundrels; two thirds, more or less, idiots; and three thirds, more or less, poltroons. H L Mencken
109,470. Congress became known as the Millionaires Club. (Working Class & Class & Repression & United States & Solidarity & Industrial Action & Strike & Trade Union & Labour & Poverty & Congress & Wealth) Plutocracy: Political Repression in the USA I: Divide and Rule, 2015