Famous Quotes | Congress seems drugged and inert...

Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time. ...Its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission. - Shirley Chisholm
Attribution: Shirley Chisholm (b. 1924), African American politician. Unbought and Unbossed, ch. 10 (1970). Chisholm was a Congresswoman from a poor district of Brooklyn.

Categories: Congress (U.S.), Politician, Politics, Social Problems

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