Best 286 quotes in «congress quotes» category

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Most Americans, who think Congress has a right to do anything for which they can get a majority vote, ignore the clearly written constitutional restraints on Congress.

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

Modi Model of Development is more a hype than reality, and the Congress has always stood for inclusive development.

Most of what we report from Congress they don't care about unless it affects them directly.

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

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.

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.

Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows.

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 Congress is the finest body of men money can buy.

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.

Our founding fathers never intended that Congress be a career.

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

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.

Pigs are smarter than dogs, and both are smarter than Congress.

Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.

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.

Some members of Congress ought to have their mouths taped instead of their speeches.

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.

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.

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.