{"quotes":[{"text":"In 1787, many Americans were convinced that the 'perpetual union' they had created in winning independence was collapsing. Six years earlier, in the Articles of Confederation, the thirteen state governments had surrendered extensive powers to a congress of delegates from each state legislature.","author":"Edmund Morgan","tags":["winning","years","congress "],"id":443,"author_id":"Edmund+Morgan"},{"text":"I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.","author":"Robert E. Lee","tags":["army","see","congress "],"id":8093,"author_id":"Robert+E.+Lee"},{"text":"As heirs to a legacy more than two centuries old, it is understandable why present-day Americans would take their own democracy for granted. A president freely chosen from a wide-open field of two men every four years; a Congress with a 99% incumbency rate; a Supreme Court comprised of nine politically appointed judges whose only oversight is the icy scythe of Death -- all these reveal a system fully capable of maintaining itself. But our perfect democracy, which neither needs nor particularly wants voters, is a rarity. It is important to remember there still exist other forms of government in the world today, and that dozens of foreign countries still long for a democracy such as ours to be imposed on them.","author":"Jon Stewart","tags":["congress","democracy","humor","politics","supreme-court","voting"],"id":10583,"author_id":"Jon+Stewart"},{"text":"I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.","author":"Hubert H. Humphrey","tags":["compassion","congress "],"id":13346,"author_id":"Hubert+H.+Humphrey"},{"text":"Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president.","author":"Tom Rice","tags":["president","congress","laws "],"id":14673,"author_id":"Tom+Rice"},{"text":"Originally, Congress provided in 1793 that all foreign coins circulating in the United States be legal tender. Indeed, foreign coins have been estimated to form 80 percent of American domestic specie circulation in 1800.","author":"Murray Rothbard","tags":["american","congress","united "],"id":35736,"author_id":"Murray+Rothbard"},{"text":"The first revolution is to transform the status of evaluation from untouchable to respectable , I.E., from the days a century ago when the value-free doctrine held that there could be no place for the serious treatment of evaluation within the sciences (or in the company of other respectable disciplines like history, jurisprudence, mathematics, etc.) to the days when even the National Academy of Sciences is doing evaluations at the request of Congress without protest from leading scientific and other professional organizations, and everyone will have good reasons for this acceptance.","author":"Michael Scriven","tags":["congress","doctrine","evaluation","national-academy-of-sciences","professional","respect","science","scientific"],"id":39595,"author_id":"Michael+Scriven"},{"text":"Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.","author":"Andy Grove","tags":["law","internet","congress "],"id":65928,"author_id":"Andy+Grove"},{"text":"It is not unpatriotic to acknowledge America’s faults. No country is perfect… We can’t reach the top of the mountain if we don’t fix the injustice and confront our lies. ","author":"Keith Ellison","tags":["america","congress","inspirational","justice","politics"],"id":90442,"author_id":"Keith+Ellison"},{"text":"I was ecstatic when they re-named 'French fries' as 'freedom fries.' Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. Government showing themselves as idiots.","author":"Johnny Depp","tags":["congress","french-fries","government","labels"],"id":117761,"author_id":"Johnny+Depp"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":53,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}