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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 266
AUTHOR: Boris Marshalov (1902–67)
QUOTATION: Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens—and then everybody disagrees.
ATTRIBUTION: BORIS MARSHALOV, a Russian observer, after visiting the House of Representatives.—Senator Alexander Wiley, Laughing with Congress, p. 58 (1947).
SUBJECTS: Congress