Congress Quotes

What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest.

About the only time Congress conforms to the will of the people is when it decides to adjourn.

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

Given the slow pace of Washington's bureaucracy, policymakers are often busy solving yesterday's problems. This rearview mirror approach afflicts Mr. Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress.

The question is who ought to make that decision, the Congress or the commanders? And as you know, my position is clear. I'm a commander guy.

I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.

Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God.

It's a lie! I am not an anti-Semite. The World Jewish Congress supported me and said that I am not anti-Semitic.

My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as well.

Republican Congressman Pete Hoekstra has charged the Bush administration with keeping programs secret from Congress. Somehow no one from Congress reads the New York Times, I guess.

If the flag needs protection at all, it needs protection from members of Congress who value the symbol more than the freedoms that the flag represents.

Congress should not be like the Super Bowl where you have to have one team that's going to win and another team that's going to be a loser.

My friends in the Congress, I have known Coretta King since I went south during the civil rights movement as a lawyer. She was a vibrant, consistent, totally dedicated partner with her husband.

Can we please rename The Sandy Relief Bill to the Supplemental Iraq War Funding Bill so the GOP Congress can vote for it?

A more important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality.

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.

My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia.

Don't you dare besmirch the name of Congress. They are patriotic Americans trying to dress and feed themselves.

For Members of Congress, we are saying here on the Democratic side of the aisle we are not going to vote for another pay increase for Members of Congress until the American people get an increase.

I have to thank the people, Congress and Government of the United States, for my liberation from captivity.

[Congress] and their cronies secure more than one hundred billion dollars in corporate welfare

A man or a woman who serves the country with all his or her heart stands on par with the tallest Congress-man.

When congress is in session no American is safe.

We simply must look beyond partisan goals and find common ground as Americans. It is imperative that the Members of Congress recognize that partisanship will not serve the American people.

That is why I strongly believe we should working in Congress to make America a better place to run a business by reducing the costly burdens of bureaucracy and red tape.

Congress needs to step up. Congress needs to do their job, and Congress needs to do their job now.

A territory cannot become a state or a nation unless Congress approves legislation and the president signs it.

I supported Bob Schaffer's three races for Congress. But we all had concerns about whether he could win statewide. Then my wife suggested that I get it.

The Court today holds the Congress may say that some of the poor are too poor even to go bankrupt. I cannot agree.

The Congress as I see, does not belong to me or to you, but it belongs to the whole country.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. They're damn boring. They have no imagination, and they don't know how to imagine the future.

Their moral influence will then do infinitely more to advance the true interests of religion, than any measures which they may call on Congress to enact.

Santiago Martinez Delgado made a Master piece in the Colombian Congress building worthy of admiration.

I ran for Congress, just once.

The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012.

With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high.

But people ought to be proud to be Democrats right now. You know, we're a happy warrior party. And this Congress has every reason to be very, very proud of the heavy lifting that they have done.

If you want to pray at a town hall meeting or a school board meeting or in the halls of Congress, that ought to be acceptable in the United States.

I obtained a job at the Library of Congress. I loved books, so I felt at home. I was going to end up, I thought, majoring in English and teach at the college level.

When I started my campaign for Congress, I was one who people said, 'Tulsi, you have a bright future, but there's no way you can win.

All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income tax law says.

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

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

Members of Congress are like the voters in one respect -- they want to go with the winners.

I also know that every person faces adversity in life. Abraham Lincoln held this seat in Congress in one term. But few faced as many defeats in his personal, business and public life as he did.

The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most affected by the proposal.

Why would I want to run for Congress and continue to get tainted with all the things that people get tainted with as they come along the system.

You can't repeal human nature by an Act of Congress.

It is hard to sell Congress and the American people on foreign aid. Is it harder to do that than it is to sell billionaires on the idea that they should give all their money away.

The centralization of power in Washington, which nearly all members of Congress deplore in their speech and then support by their votes, steadily increases.