You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state.
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
You can't go to Washington as a congressman and a senator and expect to make a difference all at once. You have to earn your way.
I simply want to do what I can to have the best Congress possible representing the American people.
There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Be assured that, as certain as Congress transcends its assigned limits and usurps powers never conferred, or stretches those conferred beyond the proper limits, so surely will the fruits of its usurpation pass into the hands of the Executive. In seeking to become master, it but makes a master in the person of the President.
Congress is the appropriate place to make laws about our country's immigration policy; it is not something that the president gets to decide on his own.
You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.