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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (159694)	7/10/2001 8:24:53 PM
From: goldworldnet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

CONGRESS The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether--Well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there. - Mark Twain's Speeches, "The Weather" It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. - Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar It is the foreign element that commits our crimes. There is no native criminal class except Congress. - More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927 ...the smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes. - Letter fragment, 1891 Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. - Mark Twain, a Biography Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can. - What Is Man? Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues. - Notebook, 1868 All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity. - Mark Twain's Autobiography; also in Mark Twain in Eruption ...I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman. - "Foster's Case", New York Tribune, 3/10/1873 Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man. - Notebook #14, 11/1877 - 7/1878 twainquotes.com * * *