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America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments. — Anatole France

[I]t is more convenient to prevent the passage of a law, than to declare it void after it has passed. — James Madison

Congress shall pass no law that exempts themselves! — Rand Paul

One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress. — John Adams

The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' It can disrespect all it wants. — P. J. O'Rourke

Congress voted for tougher laws on corporations. So now when a corporation buys a senator, they need a receipt. — Jay Leno

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places. — Wendell Phillips

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

Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law. — Ted Cruz

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. — Peter Stone

The laws of Congress are restricted to a certain sphere, and when they depart from this sphere, they are no longer supreme or binding. — Alexander Hamilton

Country is run by ... financial powers & corporate interests [who] send their lawyers to Congress to make laws so that they don't have to pay taxes — Gore Vidal

Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress. — Rick Perry

The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield. — Bill McKibben

The First Amendment ... begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'. — George Will

Was the Vietnam conflict a war which should have, as a matter of constitutional law, required a declaration of war by Congress? — Arlen Specter

When I make a joke, nobody gets injured ... when Congress makes a joke, it's the law. — Will Rogers

In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress. — Lord Acton

There are loopholes big enough to drive trucks through. And Congress needs to take a look at those laws and make sure that they're much more rigorous. — Marion Nestle

I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us. — Eric Holder

Since Congress makes the laws they are under the delusion that anything they do is legal, no matter if it is unwise, unethical, or un-Constitutional. — Jim Babka

It's lawmakers know better than anyone that laws are more a matter of practical compromise than any kind of moral imperative. — Kim Stanley Robinson

Ignorance of the law is not a valid excuse for accused criminals, and it cannot be an excuse for members of Congress. — Paul Broun

Whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people. — Archibald Cox

CONGRESS, n. A body of men who meet to repeal laws. — Ambrose Bierce

I wonder much that a court of Law should be in doubt whether a Resolution of Congress can superceed the Law of a Sovereign State. — William Whipple

What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be. — Benjamin Franklin Fairless

Did you ever hear of a congress of lawyers for simplifying the law and discouraging litigation? What — Arthur Conan Doyle

No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made it. — Trey Gowdy

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade ... — Ayn Rand