Best 286 quotes in «congress quotes» category

That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury.

That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city.

The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves.

The Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I'll say no, and they'll push, and I'll say no, and they'll push again and I'll say to them, read my lips, no new taxes.

The Congress of Vienna does not walk, but it dances.

The intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prompt reminder of an ever-present and not always considerate press, as well as the kindly suggestions that not infrequently come from Congress.

The Congress has now become a fairly evenly divided entity.

The highest ranking woman in the Congress, Cathy McMorris Rodgers who has given birth three times while she's been in Congress. That's pretty impressive.

The Israelis have a lot of influence with Congress, and in some cases they are able to buy influence.

The Congress is a power-oriented party.

The Constitution says Congress has complete control over who is and who is not a US citizen.

The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

The laws of Congress are restricted to a certain sphere, and when they depart from this sphere, they are no longer supreme or binding.

The member of Congress who forgets his constituents' needs usually serves only one term.

The salary of a member of Congress ends the day that he of she leaves office.

The president has undermined trust. No longer will the members of Congress be entitled to accept his veracity. Caveat emptor has become the word. Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth.

There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.

There is no getting around it; Congress is failing the American people.

The people can change Congress but only God can change the Supreme Court.

There is a need for Social Security reform to ensure its stability, and Congress must act.

The retirement system that is in place for members of Congress and other federal workers features what is known as the Federal Employment Retirement Plan.

The Senate being tied is a start. Now, if only it could be gagged.

The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.

The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.

The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision rejected Congress' findings and its method of reasoning, .. Is there any real justification for the court's denigrating Congress' 'method of reasoning'?.

The US is safest when Congress is in recess.

The thing about an executive order - there has never been an executive order that a Congress couldn't say, "You know, we don't like that so we're going to do something else," if there is a majority in Congress to do something else.

This is a matter of Congress authorizes spending. They order me to spend.

This In Friendship - out of it came certain connections with the liberal labor establishment. Among the personalities that were involved were Bayard Rustin and a person from the American Jewish Congress, Stanley Levinson.

This is all disgraceful and underscores how imperative it is that Obamacare be fully repealed and that the newly elected GOP Congress get a backbone and stand up to this cadre of scofflaws.

They're saying President Obama doesn't have any friends. The problem is that he can't get Congress to approve one.

This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage.

Too much screaming in Congress. Too much screaming everywhere.

Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.

We can't change the way Washington works unless we first change how Congress works.

Ultimately it all comes down to money, ultimately it all comes down to lab capacity. One thing we are clear about is if that money were to pass (in Congress), thousands of lives will be saved.

We can't wait for Congress to do its job. So where they won't act, I will.

To stabilize the nations public-employee pension systems and to prevent federal taxpayers from being billed for failed pension funds, I have introduced the Public Employee Pension Transparency Act in Congress.

Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.

Unfortunately, Congress is protecting the profits of those opposed to protecting the planet.

U.S. Constitution declares rather unambiguously that Congress has the responsibility to “declare war.

Washington D.C.! Congress is full of self-declared outsiders.

We applaud Congress for extending equitable abortion coverage to female Peace Corps volunteers.

We are determined to listen to nothing from the illegal congress.

We don't need a "New Covenant." We need a new Congress.

When congress is in session no American is safe.

Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry

Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.