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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I know that Congress will do the right thing.

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

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 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.

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

In Congress the majority governs, but the minority rules.

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 ran for Congress, just once.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 not the function of Congress to do criminal investigations.

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

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.

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

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.