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"Democrats' definition of "rich" - always seems to be set just above whatever the salary happens to be for a member of Congress. Perhaps that says it all."

Steve Steckler, American Entrepreneur

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"Serving in Congress has been the honor of a lifetime."

Bob Ehrlich, American Politician

Congress, Honor

"As parties began to develop around the turn of the 19th century, you had party nominees for President nominated in caucuses made up of party members in Congress."

Michael Beschloss, American Historian

Congress, Party, President

"Since President Bush took office in 2001, this Congress has supported an agenda of democracy, freedom and expansion of rights for all peoples throughout the world."

Ginny B. Waite, American Author

Congress, Democracy, Freedom, Rights

"I ran for Congress, just once."

Shirley Temple, American Actress

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"Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it."

Cullen Hightower, American Humorist

Congress, Talk

"It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye."

George P. Shultz, American Public Servant

Congress, Eye

"'Favoritism' is always a factor, and pressure always build for the appointment of friends of influential supporters of the President, or for the nominees of powerful Member of Congress from the incoming President's party."

Richard V. Allen, American Public Servant

Congress, Friends, Party, President

"Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority."

Barber B. Conable, Jr., American Politician

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"Congress seems to believe that 'Children are our future' is a phrase coined by tobacco advertisers."

Jef I. Richards, American Professor

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"Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots."

Love

"A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection."

Name

"Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right."

Agitation

"The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him."

Ignorance

"It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous."

Lie

"If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless."

Baby

"I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors."

Woman

"It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis."

Politics

"I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman."

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