Johnny Depp  - Quotes

 I was ecstatic when they re-named  

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The American President  - Quotes

 
[after asking Sydney to join him for the state dinner. Long pause]
President Andrew Shepherd:
Sydney, Congress doesn't take this long.
 

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Fahrenheit 9/11  - Quotes

 
[to Michael Moore, explaining how Congress could pass the Patriot Act without reading it]
John Conyers:
Sit down, my son. We don't read most of the bills.
 

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Clear and Present Danger  - Quotes

 Jack Ryan:
[confronting Ritter on "Reciprocity"] Why was I kept out if it?
Ritter:
You weren't kept out of it, you're NECK DEEP in it! You went before Congress and you got the money for it!
 

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Almost Heroes  - Quotes

 Edwards:
Mr. President, we have to give bears the right to vote... or bears will rise up and then BEARS will be in congress and we will be the ones performing in the circus, wearing little hats.
 

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Beyond the Sea  - Quotes

 Bobby Darin:
[after losing the Oscar] Melvyn Douglas is married to a Congress woman and I'm married to Tammy.
Sandra Dee:
Well, it took 40 years for Melvyn Douglas to get a supporting actor's face. You should be happy you did in just two.
 

Why We Fight  - Quotes

 Karen Kwiatkowski:
We have a congress that failed, in every way, to ask the right questions, to hold the president to account. Our congress failed us miserably, and that's because many in congress are beholden to the military-industrial complex.
 

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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace  - Quotes

 
[first title cards]
Title card/crawl::
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
Title card/crawl::
Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute. Hoping to resolve the matter with a blockade of deadly battleships, the greedy Trade Federation has stopped all shipping to the small planet of Naboo. While the Congress of the Republic endlessly debates this alarming chain of events, the Supreme Chancellor has secretly dispatched two Jedi Knights, the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy, to settle the conflict...
 

Wedding Crashers  - Quotes

 John Beckwith:
Secretary Cleary, I'm John Ryan.
Secretary Cleary:
Hi, John.
John Beckwith:
I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed your position paper on economic expansion in Micronesia.
Secretary Cleary:
You've read my position paper?
John Beckwith:
I read it while I was sailing my boat to Bermuda.
Secretary Cleary:
A sailor? Good man! Take a seat. You didn't happen to catch my speech on the Paraguayan debt and money supply issue did you?
John Beckwith:
Are you kidding me? I thought it was great! Your argument for the inverse ratio of capitalization to debt was genius. Now if we could just get Congress not to be so short-sighted.
Secretary Cleary:
Yes! Well put. Short-sighted. John, what d'you say we head onto the deck and light up a couple of cigars?
John Beckwith:
Stogies?
Secretary Cleary:
Yeah.
John Beckwith:
Why not?
 

Mark Twain  - Quotes

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

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Ralph Nader  - Quotes

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

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