When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not guilty.’
Theodore Roosevelt
Orion's Cold Fire
All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!
All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not guilty.’
Theodore Roosevelt
I do not much admire the Senate, because it is such a helpless body when efficient work for good is to be done.-Theodore Roosevelt, 1906
(In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt fumed as a small handful of senators held up ratification of a treaty he considered important. Roosevelt wrote this confession to a friend in a private letter–not for senatorial consumption!)