Congress Met

Famous quotes containing the words congress and/or met:

    “Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the President and the Congress to govern this nation. This difficult effort will be the “moral equivalent of war,” except that we will be uniting our efforts to build and not to destroy.”
    —Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)

    “Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow’r,
    Thou’s met me in an evil hour;
    For I maun crush amang the stoure
    Thy slender stem:
    To spare thee now is past my pow’r,
    Thou bonnie gem.”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)