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The powers of Congress are totally inadequate to preserve the balance between the respective States, and oblige them to do those things which are essential for their own welfare or for the general good.

— Henry Knox

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Congress is dysfunctional.

— Bob Filner

The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most affected by the proposal.

— Al Gore

Obviously no one wants to give members of Congress a lot of money, because they barely do anything, and many of them are terrible, but a Congress that is made up of rich-but-not-super-rich people is going to be more corruptible than a Congress of really rich people.

— Alex Pareene

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

— Carl Bernstein

Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.

— Emanuel Cleaver

Congress cannot be allowed to impose burdens on the American people while relieving its own members of those burdens.

— Ron DeSantis

Historically, Congress hasn't paid much attention to the confines the Constitution establishes.

— Tim Griffin

Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

— E. L. Doctorow

✗Opposing Perspectives

I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.

— Barber Conable

Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything - it can stop the Vietnam War, it can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything.

— Antonin Scalia