Best 286 quotes in «congress quotes» category

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

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.

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

In Congress the majority governs, but the minority rules.

I ran for Congress, just once.

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

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.

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 probably hold more town halls than any member of Congress.

I represent more Native Americans than anyone else in Congress.

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.

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

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

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

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.

[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.

I told the Congress, 'Thanks, but no thanks,' on that Bridge to Nowhere.

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

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

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 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.

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

It was fascinating what a total interest he [John F. Kennedy] had in his tradecraft of being a politician. I didn't realize before that he was working on his memoirs all along, how he ran for Congress, that sort of thing.

It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.

I've often thought that the process of aging could be slowed down if it had to go through Congress.

I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.

I went to Congress to change the policies of our country. I did not go to change the behaviors of members of Congress.

I will continue to work diligently in Congress to ensure that our veterans receive the benefits and care that they have earned and deserve.

I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written.

I would love to do an unauthorized biography about Congress. It's like a secret society up there.

I would rather be known as 'Jim Kolbe, the trade expert in Congress who happens to be gay,' rather than 'Jim Kolbe, gay congressman from Arizona.'

Jack Abramoff is going to testify against some of the other weasels in Congress. A lobbyist testifying against congressmen? How many Bibles are going to burst into flames in that courtroom?

It would not be for the public good to have [a majority in Congress of one party] greater [than] two to one.

JFK [John F. Kennedy] was young, glamorous, Camelot, funny, engaging. Congress loved him.

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.

Keith Ellison is an organizer's organizer.He's one of the only Muslims in Congress, so you have a big statement there.

Labor Day, I suppose set by an Act of Congress. Everything we do nowadays is either by, or against, Acts of Congress. How Congress knew anything about Labor is beyond us.

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress

Librarian of Congress: It's a librarian's dream.

Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.

Look. I have always rejected the argument that members of Congress cast their vote because they're Jewish or not Jewish. I didn't cast my vote as a Jewish member of Congress. I cast my vote as a member of Congress.

Mission creep is not unique to Congress. It is endemic to all arms of the federal government.

Members of Congress must live according to the same laws as everyone else.