Best 286 quotes in «congress quotes» category

Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy.

Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.

Our founding fathers never intended that Congress be a career.

Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.

Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress.

Parliaments are in all cases to declare what is good for the whole; but it is not the declaration of parliament that makes it so.

People like Congress more than their health insurance companies.

Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows.

Pigs are smarter than dogs, and both are smarter than Congress.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Senator, it has been reported that you have had illegal congress with your mother.

Prayer and dependence on God has been our history. How unfortunate it is now that an unaccountable and unelected and misguided judge from Wisconsin, Judge Barbara Crabb, has declared National Days of Prayer - established by the Congress - to be unconstitutional.

Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.

Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.

Since Congress makes the laws they are under the delusion that anything they do is legal, no matter if it is unwise, unethical, or un-Constitutional.

Some members of Congress ought to have their mouths taped instead of their speeches.

Since September 11th Congress has created the Department of Homeland Security, more than doubled the homeland security budget and implemented a bipartisan overhaul of our intelligence systems.

Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all.

That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city.

Stiffening the spine of progressive members of Congress is crucial.

That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury.

So our focus has to be on the things that we can control, which is to take the necessary measures working with Congress to ensure that our economy grows, that we create jobs.

The Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I'll say no, and they'll push, and I'll say no, and they'll push again and I'll say to them, read my lips, no new taxes.

The Congress is a power-oriented party.

The Congress has now become a fairly evenly divided entity.

The Constitution says Congress has complete control over who is and who is not a US citizen.

The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves.

The Congress of Vienna does not walk, but it dances.

The highest ranking woman in the Congress, Cathy McMorris Rodgers who has given birth three times while she's been in Congress. That's pretty impressive.

The Israelis have a lot of influence with Congress, and in some cases they are able to buy influence.

The intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prompt reminder of an ever-present and not always considerate press, as well as the kindly suggestions that not infrequently come from Congress.

The laws of Congress are restricted to a certain sphere, and when they depart from this sphere, they are no longer supreme or binding.

There is no getting around it; Congress is failing the American people.

The people can change Congress but only God can change the Supreme Court.

The member of Congress who forgets his constituents' needs usually serves only one term.

The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

The president has undermined trust. No longer will the members of Congress be entitled to accept his veracity. Caveat emptor has become the word. Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth.

There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.

The Senate being tied is a start. Now, if only it could be gagged.

The retirement system that is in place for members of Congress and other federal workers features what is known as the Federal Employment Retirement Plan.

The salary of a member of Congress ends the day that he of she leaves office.

The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.

The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision rejected Congress' findings and its method of reasoning, .. Is there any real justification for the court's denigrating Congress' 'method of reasoning'?.

The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.

The thing about an executive order - there has never been an executive order that a Congress couldn't say, "You know, we don't like that so we're going to do something else," if there is a majority in Congress to do something else.

The US is safest when Congress is in recess.

They're saying President Obama doesn't have any friends. The problem is that he can't get Congress to approve one.

This In Friendship - out of it came certain connections with the liberal labor establishment. Among the personalities that were involved were Bayard Rustin and a person from the American Jewish Congress, Stanley Levinson.