Best 286 quotes in «congress quotes» category

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 probably hold more town halls than any member of Congress.

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 ran for Congress, just once.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to 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.

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

I went to Congress to change the policies of our country. I did not go to change the behaviors of members of 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 wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written.

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

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.'

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?

JFK [John F. Kennedy] was young, glamorous, Camelot, funny, engaging. Congress loved him.

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

Labor Day, I suppose set by an Act of Congress. Everything we do nowadays is either by, or against, Acts of Congress. How Congress knew anything about Labor is beyond us.

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress

Librarian of Congress: It's a librarian's dream.

Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.

Look. I have always rejected the argument that members of Congress cast their vote because they're Jewish or not Jewish. I didn't cast my vote as a Jewish member of Congress. I cast my vote as a member of Congress.

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Members of Congress must live according to the same laws as everyone else.

Mission creep is not unique to Congress. It is endemic to all arms of the federal government.

Modi Model of Development is more a hype than reality, and the Congress has always stood for inclusive development.

Most Americans, who think Congress has a right to do anything for which they can get a majority vote, ignore the clearly written constitutional restraints on Congress.

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

One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.

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

Most of what we report from Congress they don't care about unless it affects them directly.

My golf-loving friend Bob Hope asked me what my handicap was, so I told him - the Congress.