Legislative Debates Quotes

“While floor statements from today's [congressional] representatives are typically delivered to empty galleries and published into unread oblivion, legislative debates in the Reconstruction era were widely disseminated and closely observed.”
― Andrew Buttaro, The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 and the End of Reconstruction

“I would rather contend with an honest asshole than a duplicitous diplomat.”
― A.E. Samaan