Best 286 quotes in «congress quotes» category

I believe that Congress will and must act before then to renew its objections to multiple and discriminatory taxes on the Internet, as well as to taxes that inhibit Internet access.

I came to Congress to help reduce spending.

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!

I could say, as a member of Congress, we usually get an alert if something is going to happen at the Capitol.

I did subscribe to the freedom movement and I was much closer to the Congress than to the Akali party. It is a communal party.

I don't disagree with ending Congress' retirement program. I'm a governor, I don't have a retirement program in my state, and I don't disagree with that.

If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts.

I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress.

I do not suspect that Jefferson or Madison ever envisioned Congress honoring the 2,560th anniversary of the birth of Confucius or supporting the designation of National Pi Day.

If Iran invaded Israel, it's up to Congress to declare war.

If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress.

If bribery is good enough for Congress, it's good enough for me.

If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything-and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers.

I have also come to understand Congress' need for a bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity.

I have a great deal of concern for any president and the amount of power they accumulate versus congress. I'm a stickler about the idea of separation of powers.

I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency.

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

I have a reputation for being the hardest working person in Congress.

If we took Congress seriously, we would be worrying all the time.

I know that Congress will do the right thing.

I like shitty strip clubs. They look like what they are. I know what to expect. Unlike Congress, at least we know everybody is for sale.

I'm just going to let my record in Congress speak for itself.

I'm absolutely against privatizing the V.A. And I am going do everything I can to build on the reforms that Senator Sanders and others in Congress have passed to try to fix what's wrong with the V.A.

I'm sick of these congress meetings. There no reason to meet again. As you know, if there's a congress, I usually win it.

I hope to continue to be serving South Dakota in Congress.

In Congress, I was a relentless advocate for fiscal responsibility.

In Congress the majority governs, but the minority rules.

I probably hold more town halls than any member of Congress.

I ran for Congress not because I was having a mid-life crisis. I left the private sector because I saw a looming financial crisis that was coming to this country. It's unsustainable.

I ran for Congress, just once.

I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better.

I represent more Native Americans than anyone else in Congress.

In 2004, I ran for Congress and lost. In 2006, I ran again and won - defeating Richard Pombo, a seven-term Republican incumbent.

I request that they may be considered in confidence, until the members of Congress are fully possessed of their contents, and shall have had opportunity to deliberate on the consequences of their publication; after which time, I submit them to your wisdom.

I think he [Donald Trump] recognizes that a plan that would increase the deficit by $10 trillion over a decade is not a plan that's likely to get traction in Congress.

it is a longstanding principle that sitting national security advisers do not testify before the Congress.

I think people are beating each other up in the halls of Congress, as they did in the late 1850s.

In the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you're seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation.

It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.

It is hard sometimes to get the Congress to do what you want to do and you have to keep working at it.

It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act.

[I]t is more convenient to prevent the passage of a law, than to declare it void after it has passed.

It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money.

It's a lie! I am not an anti-Semite. The World Jewish Congress supported me and said that I am not anti-Semitic.

It's August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean to seek a mate.

It's awfully hard to convey a sense of credibility to allies when you [the Congress] voted for the war and then you declared: Wrong war, wrong place, wrong time.

It's not fair to say that Congress spends money like a drunk sailor. At least the sailor is spending his own money!

It's disgraceful that year after year, Congress has bowed to the tobacco lobby and refused to act.

It's not the function of Congress to do criminal investigations.

It's the best proposal that we ought to have, because it's flatter, it's fairer, it's finite, it's family-friendly. And instead we've had Congress that's spent money like [John] Edwards at a beauty shop.