Best 286 quotes in «congress quotes» category

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Congress: America's only true criminal class.

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 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 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 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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.