Best 286 quotes in «congress quotes» category

Every member Congress is under the threat of being destroyed by the Israeli lobby.

Fundamental relationships are being called into question, as is the very basis of marriage and the family. I can only reiterate the importance and, above all, the richness and the beauty of family life.

Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

Gabby Giffords was a mentor of mine in the state Legislature and also in Congress.

For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from.

From 1918 on, trade unionists were to express from the platforms of their congresses the workers' desire for peace through a rational organization of the world.

Here and there on the branch of an oak a congress of leaves still clung, rigid as flakes of bronze.

Granting such immunity undermines the constitutional protections Americans trust the Congress to protect.

Have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress.

Hillary's explanation of the Libyan action to Congress was so good, I wonder who explained it to her?

Hey, well, I've been a pretty conservative member of congress.

I can see it now: Osama bin Laden goes up to the pearly gates where George Washington comes out, starts beating him and is then joined by 70 other members of the Continental Congress. Osama will say, Hey, wait! Where are my 71 virgins? And George will reply It's 71 Virginians, you asshole!

Hurray! Congress is to adjourn! Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury!

I believe that Congress will and must act before then to renew its objections to multiple and discriminatory taxes on the Internet, as well as to taxes that inhibit Internet access.

I came to Congress to help reduce spending.

I did subscribe to the freedom movement and I was much closer to the Congress than to the Akali party. It is a communal party.

I could say, as a member of Congress, we usually get an alert if something is going to happen at the Capitol.

I do not suspect that Jefferson or Madison ever envisioned Congress honoring the 2,560th anniversary of the birth of Confucius or supporting the designation of National Pi Day.

I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress.

I don't disagree with ending Congress' retirement program. I'm a governor, I don't have a retirement program in my state, and I don't disagree with that.

If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts.

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.

If bribery is good enough for Congress, it's good enough for me.

If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything-and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers.

If Iran invaded Israel, it's up to Congress to declare war.

If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress.

If we took Congress seriously, we would be worrying all the time.

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

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

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

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

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

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 know that Congress will do the right thing.

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 probably hold more town halls than any member of Congress.

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.

I ran for Congress, just once.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.