Best 286 quotes in «congress quotes» category

The message from too many Democrats and Republicans alike remains that we should not let facts get in the way of our day-dreams. It's so much easier to fantasize about an alternative and ideal world, rather than making the hard and unpopular decisions that are necessary to deal with the complicated and frustrating one in which we live. It is so much easier to imagine that world as a blank slate on which America can draw as it wishes, rather than to recognize that limits on American power, and recalibrate strategy accordingly. If Americans fail to reexamine their fundamental attitudes toward that world, then the risk for the future is that failure in Iraq will make the United States more cautious, but not wiser.

The new dumb, is now wisdom.

The only criticism any one has any business making against Congress is that it’s too good for some of the men we send there. Congress is our great virtue, understand; the congressmen are our fault.

The requirement for the United States to craft a national security strategy (NSS) document was first codified in the National Security Act of 1947, and amended by the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986. The 1986 amendment requires the President to submit the document on an annual basis to Congress to provide a comprehensive report on U.S. national security strategy. Both pieces of legislation mandate that the strategy include a "comprehensive description and discussion of worldwide interests, goals, and objectives...that are vital to the national security of the United States." It would also address foreign policy, world wide military commitments, U.S. national defense capabilities, short- and long-term uses of the elements of national power, and the requirement to have the strategy transmitted to Congress in both classified and unclassified form. A number of national security strategies were developed over time prior to the Goldwater-Nichols legislation, to include what many believe was the most significant grand strategy of the era, NSC-68, the key containment strategy against Soviet and Chinese communism. All were crafted during the pre-Goldwater-Nichals Act period at the classified level.

There is Irish Spring, but there is no fall soap.

This was one of the unfortunate consequences of exaggerating the enemy's evil. You were obligated to exaggerate your own virtues as well. To counter the enemy's fiendish subversion, you wielded a blunt instrument of righteousness. And then you got a congressional committee of yahoos with subpoena power and God on their side...If only, Axel thought. If only they weren't so god damned dumb.

the two most corrupted motherfuckers in that Party are leading the party

The two main problems with signature and heuristic based anti-virus is the mutating hash and the fact that you first need a victim in order to obtain the signature." James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

Wisdom of the Ages: "Keystone Pipeline" Conveniently removes the need to speak figuratively about Congress stick a dagger into the heart of America.

Trump taught us how easily seemingly serious people can become profoundly idiotic. He turned career politicians into circus freaks.

Trump’s ridiculousness, his narcissistic ability to make everything about himself, the outrageousness of his lies, and the profundity of his ignorance can easily distract attention from the more lasting implications of his story: how easily Republicans in Congress enabled him, undermining the whole concept of checks and balances set in place by the founders; how a third of the country passively accepted his assaults on the Constitution; how easily Russian disinformation took root in a culture where the teaching of history and civics had seriously atrophied.

Well, then he would be at war with the government, and death was an unfortunate side effect of any revolution. Change always had a price tag. But once he took over, the people would realize he was a better ruler than the disorganized, self-interested mob that called themselves Congress -- men who didn't know anything, being led by a president who knew even less.

We need to show the Congress that our Government is no longer on sale to the highest bidder. It belongs to the voters.

All human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection.

Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

9/11 references are like Lay's potato chips...no Congress can make just one.

All I can say is that with business and the interest of any party before me, I will consider and apply the law as it is written by Congress and informed by precedent.

Aren't we supposed to believe that if you are an elected official, if you serve in Congress, you are representing all the people of your district not just the people who voted for you, not [just] the people who you agree with?

Americans want to have what members of Congress have: guaranteed health coverage.

America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.

And always remember, Abraham Lincoln only served one term in Congress, too.

Anybody that brings up amnesty in this Congress, we need to just take the scarlet 'A' for amnesty and pin it on them.

Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great.

As I have said, the best Bush strategy is to put Congress on TV as often as possible.

As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing.

A top geneticist at Stanford says human intelligence is declining. You know what that means? We are seeing Congress at its smartest and most effective right now.

Congress: America's only true criminal class.

Barbara Comstock is a solid and reliable conservative. I've known her for many years. She'd make a great member of Congress. I am happy to join other conservatives and proudly endorse her candidacy.

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.

Congress has no power to make any religious establishments.

Congress is going to start tinkering with the Ten Commandments just as soon as they find someone in Washington who has read them.

Congress is headed in the wrong direction with this bill which removes any and all incentives from the food industry to improve their products for children.

Congress is not a party which fades when not in power

Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

[Congress] can just make [Mitt] Romney president. And we'd be like, "All right, fine.

Congress has become so dysfunctional that more and more of a burden is placed on the agencies to fill in the gaps. And the gaps get bigger and bigger because they're not constantly refreshed and tweaked.

Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull.

Congress is good at doing two things: one is nothing, and the other is overreacting.

Congress is like first grade, only not as well behaved.

Congress is the Justin Bieber of our government

Congress knew Coolidge would veto the farm bill. There was more politics than relief in that bill.

Benjamin Netanyahu, understands that the standing ovation he got in Congress this year was not for his politics. That ovation was bought and paid for by the Israel lobby.

Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now.

Congress constitutionally lacks general police powers.

Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.

Congress is hard to deal with, dealing with, you know, multiple parliaments and commissions and unions and this and that and the other, that's very complicated.

Congress must also enact pro-growth policies that encourage the economy to expand: like making tax relief permanent and repealing the death tax.

Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance.

Congress can grant a waiver [for General James Mattis ] and has done that once in history.

Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay