In Britain the government has to come down in front of Parliament every day to explain its actions, but here the President never answers directly to Congress.
Bella AbzugWhen I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
Bella AbzugThe inside operation of Congress - the deals, the compromises, the selling out, the co-opting, the unprincipled manipulating, the self-serving career-building - is a story of such monumental decadence that I believe if people find out about it they will demand an end to it.
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