Presidents who are low in the polls have a hard time getting Congress to go along with them. He has to persuade the people in Congress to follow his legislative agenda and they're all worried about 2006.


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She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
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The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. The...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Those that won't be counseled can't be helped.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great piece...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The proof of gold is fire...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
When you're finished changing, you're finished.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frug...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, an...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Drive your business, let not your business drive you.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by Greek.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowled...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
What has become clear to you since we last met?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN