Best 286 quotes in «congress quotes» category

Congress has no power to make any religious establishments.

Congress: America's only true criminal class.

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 my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.

Congress is responsible for every major change in India

Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.

[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.

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

Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. The minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 50 years adjusted for inflation.

Congress is best viewed from a distance - the farther the better - because up close, it is truly ugly.

Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.

Congress shall also create a tax code weighing more than the combined poundage of the largest member of the House and the largest member of the Senate, plus a standard musk ox.

Congress shall never disarm any citizen unless such as are or have been in actual rebellion.

Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again.

Corruption is no stranger to Washington; it is a famous resident.

Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.

Congress is not a party which fades when not in power

Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

Don't people know that they don't have to heckle the president of the United States? That's what Congress is for.

[Donald Trump's inauguration] will be the first one that I miss since I've been in Congress. You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.

Dont count on Congress. Laws come into being because people on the ground demand it.

Destruction of the churches and the like is not the way to Swaraj as defined by the Congress.

During my first term in Congress, I signed a pledge that I will take no more earmarks and I've been faithful to that pledge.

From 1918 on, trade unionists were to express from the platforms of their congresses the workers' desire for peace through a rational organization of the world.

Do you remember the good ol' days when Congress was only unsafe if you were an intern.

Every member Congress is under the threat of being destroyed by the Israeli lobby.

Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from.

Fundamental relationships are being called into question, as is the very basis of marriage and the family. I can only reiterate the importance and, above all, the richness and the beauty of family life.

Gabby Giffords was a mentor of mine in the state Legislature and also in Congress.

Granting such immunity undermines the constitutional protections Americans trust the Congress to protect.

Hey, well, I've been a pretty conservative member of congress.

Hillary's explanation of the Libyan action to Congress was so good, I wonder who explained it to her?

Hurray! Congress is to adjourn! Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury!

I came to Congress to help reduce spending.

Here and there on the branch of an oak a congress of leaves still clung, rigid as flakes of bronze.

I can see it now: Osama bin Laden goes up to the pearly gates where George Washington comes out, starts beating him and is then joined by 70 other members of the Continental Congress. Osama will say, Hey, wait! Where are my 71 virgins? And George will reply It's 71 Virginians, you asshole!