Best 286 quotes in «congress quotes» category

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

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.

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

Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

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 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.

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.

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 a reputation for being the hardest working person in Congress.

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

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

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

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

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'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 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.

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

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 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.

In Congress the majority governs, but the minority rules.

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

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 probably hold more town halls than any member of Congress.

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

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

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