Best 286 quotes in «congress quotes» category

I have a great deal of concern for any president and the amount of power they accumulate versus congress. I'm a stickler about the idea of separation of powers.

I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency.

I have also come to understand Congress' need for a bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity.

I have a reputation for being the hardest working person in Congress.

I like shitty strip clubs. They look like what they are. I know what to expect. Unlike Congress, at least we know everybody is for sale.

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

I hope to continue to be serving South Dakota in Congress.

I know that Congress will do the right thing.

I'm absolutely against privatizing the V.A. And I am going do everything I can to build on the reforms that Senator Sanders and others in Congress have passed to try to fix what's wrong with the V.A.

I'm just going to let my record in Congress speak for itself.

In 2004, I ran for Congress and lost. In 2006, I ran again and won - defeating Richard Pombo, a seven-term Republican incumbent.

I'm sick of these congress meetings. There no reason to meet again. As you know, if there's a congress, I usually win it.

In Congress the majority governs, but the minority rules.

In the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you're seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation.

In Congress, I was a relentless advocate for fiscal responsibility.

I ran for Congress, just once.

I ran for Congress not because I was having a mid-life crisis. I left the private sector because I saw a looming financial crisis that was coming to this country. It's unsustainable.

I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better.

I probably hold more town halls than any member of Congress.

I represent more Native Americans than anyone else in Congress.

I request that they may be considered in confidence, until the members of Congress are fully possessed of their contents, and shall have had opportunity to deliberate on the consequences of their publication; after which time, I submit them to your wisdom.

I think he [Donald Trump] recognizes that a plan that would increase the deficit by $10 trillion over a decade is not a plan that's likely to get traction in Congress.

It is hard sometimes to get the Congress to do what you want to do and you have to keep working at it.

I think people are beating each other up in the halls of Congress, as they did in the late 1850s.

it is a longstanding principle that sitting national security advisers do not testify before the Congress.

It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.

[I]t is more convenient to prevent the passage of a law, than to declare it void after it has passed.

It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act.

It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money.

It's disgraceful that year after year, Congress has bowed to the tobacco lobby and refused to act.

It's awfully hard to convey a sense of credibility to allies when you [the Congress] voted for the war and then you declared: Wrong war, wrong place, wrong time.

I told the Congress, 'Thanks, but no thanks,' on that Bridge to Nowhere.

It's a lie! I am not an anti-Semite. The World Jewish Congress supported me and said that I am not anti-Semitic.

It's August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean to seek a mate.

It would not be for the public good to have [a majority in Congress of one party] greater [than] two to one.

It's not fair to say that Congress spends money like a drunk sailor. At least the sailor is spending his own money!

It's not the function of Congress to do criminal investigations.

It's the best proposal that we ought to have, because it's flatter, it's fairer, it's finite, it's family-friendly. And instead we've had Congress that's spent money like [John] Edwards at a beauty shop.

It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.

It was fascinating what a total interest he [John F. Kennedy] had in his tradecraft of being a politician. I didn't realize before that he was working on his memoirs all along, how he ran for Congress, that sort of thing.

It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.

I went to Congress to change the policies of our country. I did not go to change the behaviors of members of Congress.

I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.

I will continue to work diligently in Congress to ensure that our veterans receive the benefits and care that they have earned and deserve.

I've often thought that the process of aging could be slowed down if it had to go through Congress.

I would rather be known as 'Jim Kolbe, the trade expert in Congress who happens to be gay,' rather than 'Jim Kolbe, gay congressman from Arizona.'

I would love to do an unauthorized biography about Congress. It's like a secret society up there.

I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written.

Keith Ellison is an organizer's organizer.He's one of the only Muslims in Congress, so you have a big statement there.

Jack Abramoff is going to testify against some of the other weasels in Congress. A lobbyist testifying against congressmen? How many Bibles are going to burst into flames in that courtroom?