Congress Quotes

Congress Quote of the day

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

You know, I think many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In truth that's not the case. The real truth is that Wall Street regulates the Congress.

One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress.

Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.

Whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people.

As Members of Congress, we should not be using public office for private gain.

To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing.

More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.

Pro and con are opposites, that fact is clearly seen. If progress means to move forward, then what does congress mean?

Does he [the president] possess the power of making war? That power is exclusively vested in Congress. . . . It is the exclusive province of Congress to change a state of peace into a state of war.

We favor putting Congress on a commission basis. Pay them for results. If they do a good job and the country prospers, they get 10% of the extra take.

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

I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am.

We have the right as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.

As parties began to develop around the turn of the 19th century, you had party nominees for President nominated in caucuses made up of party members in Congress.

Congress is not an ATM.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.

If we are serious about combating the childhood obesity epidemic and improving child nutrition, then everyone must chip in -- parents, schools, and yes even Congress.

There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president.

All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.

It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which means, in essence, that it belongs to Congress.

Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure as Attorney General.

I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch.

Marching with over a million women in support of our reproductive rights was one of the most empowering things I have done, both as a woman and as a Member of Congress.

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 fundamentally believe in term limits, for Congress, presidents, and board members.

From his proceedings in Congress, he appears demented, and his actings and doings inspire my pity more than anger.

But the Congress has made the determination that certain kinds of information can be protected even though the American people may want to have access to information.

My top three priorities for my first term in Congress are growing our economy; providing for quality, affordable health care; and keeping our nation and communities safe.

In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate.

I think that Congress's ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.

I don't care what the American people think, I own the congress!

I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.

Members of Congress should be compelled to wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers, so we could identify their corporate sponsors.

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.

Congress has no power to make any religious establishments.

Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.

The IRS takes your money. Congress uses our money to arm our enemies. The IRS takes more of your money. Congress uses that money to fight the enemies Congress just armed.

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

The IRS has become morally corrupted by the enormous power which we in Congress have unwisely entrusted to it. Too often it acts like a Gestapo preying upon defenseless citizens.

My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress.

Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure ... no wonder it's been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.

Congress is furious at the Secret Service for consorting with hookers, which has traditionally been Congress's role.

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

If women could go into your Congress, I think justice would soon be done to the Indians.