Best 286 quotes in «congress quotes» category

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

One of my big beliefs about Washington is that we highly overstate the power of individuals and highly underrate seeing Washington as a system, in general, but, in particular, we highly underrate the power of Congress.

Next time a man tells you talk is cheap, ask him if he knows how much a session of Congress costs.

No foreign policy will stick unless the American people are behind it. And unless Congress understands it. And unless Congress understands it, the American people aren't going to understand it.

Obviously, overall infrastructure needs on the Southwest and Northern borders are mounting. We need a major push in Congress to remedy this.

Once Congress establishes that one person can live at the expense of another, it pays for everyone to try to do so.

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

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.

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 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.

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

Our founding fathers never intended that Congress be a career.

People like Congress more than their health insurance companies.

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.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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.

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

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.

Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 has now become a fairly evenly divided entity.

The Congress is a power-oriented party.

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

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.

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 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.