The sovereign power of the people, exercised through their representatives in Congress, with the concurrence of the executive.

Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors.

Access equals power in Washington, and few people have greater access than a former member of Congress. We believe the public has the right to know how frequently their elected representatives change their allegiances and become lobbyists.

We are going to vigorously attack the law in courts, ... Congress has no power to retroactively deprive people of their rights.

Especially ahead of the National People Congress [beginning November 7] with power structure changes -- who's in, who's out and what scores are being settled -- some of the recent scandals have raised the question: whether someone is being prosecuted because it was a sign of a loss of some power or potential loss of power by a particular faction in the government?

We have the power to win back Congress. Yesterday proved it.