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

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

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.

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

Our founding fathers never intended that Congress be a career.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The Congress is a power-oriented party.

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

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.

Stiffening the spine of progressive members of Congress is crucial.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

There is a need for Social Security reform to ensure its stability, and Congress must act.

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

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

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

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

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.