In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate.
Source: In The Forbes Book of Business Quotations, by Ted Goodman, 1997.
-- Franklin Pierce, (Nov 23 1804-1869), US president (14th); He was the 14th U.S. president, 1853-57; tried unsuccessfully to end sectional controversy over slavery.