Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 302 |
| AUTHOR: | John Steven McGroarty (1862–1944) |
| QUOTATION: | One of the countless drawbacks of being in Congress is that I am compelled to receive impertinent letters from a jackass like you in which you say I promised to have the Sierra Madre mountains reforested and I have been in Congress two months and haven’t done it. Will you please take two running jumps and go to hell. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Attributed to Representative McGroarty served in Congress 1935–1939. |
| SUBJECTS: | Congressmen |