Congress Quotes

Librarian of Congress: It's a librarian's dream.

This is where the Continental Congress met over two hundred years ago during the American Revolution. So, Lancaster was actually the capital of our nation for one day in 1977.

I would encourage the next commander in chief to be more cooperative and communicative with Congress, particularly when entering a conflict.

In Congress the majority governs, but the minority rules.

Next time a man tells you talk is cheap, ask him if he knows how much a session of Congress costs.

Let's say [Donald] Trump wins. Is Congress going to let him build a wall on the Mexican border? I don't think so.

The same people own the media that own the White House that own the Congress that own the oil fields. They all work together to give a false view of the world to the American people.

My job in Congress is to identify projects with federal or some other public component and then to push developers to provide employment opportunities to neighborhood residents.

I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.

Too much screaming in Congress. Too much screaming everywhere.

[Donald Trump's inauguration] will be the first one that I miss since I've been in Congress. You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.

About one-half of the members of Congress are seekers for office at the nomination of the President. Of the remainder, at least one-half have some appointment or favor to ask for their relatives.

9/11 references are like Lay's potato chips...no Congress can make just one.

President Obama is so much smarter and a better communicator than members of Congress in either party. The contrast, side by side, is almost ridiculous.

Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.

The First Amendment was not intended to withdraw the Christian religion as a whole from the protection of Congress.

People like Congress more than their health insurance companies.

My Worst Political Move of the 2015 Year. John Boehner inviting Benjamin Netanyahu to address the joint session of Congress.

I think it is important for someone like me to not run away from who I am but embrace it. LGBT people across the country need to know they have a friend in Congress.

We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and extend its coverage.

The Patriot Act is the most egregious piece of legislation to ever leave Congress since the Alien and Sedition Acts, John Ashcroft and every member of Congress who voted for it should be indicted.

We've had a Congress that's spent money like John Edwards at a beauty shop.

Congress constitutionally lacks general police powers.

The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.

Congress is not a party which fades when not in power

Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.

When I go up there, I see coal lobbyists, oil lobbyists, natural gas lobbyists, nuclear power lobbyists, somehow they think that's where the action is in Congress.

However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.

Usually the president is kind of the initiator of the idea, then Congress makes it work.

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

[It is not the purpose nor right of Congress] to attend to what generosity and humanity require, but to what the Constitution and their duty require.

Anarchists have taken over (the GOP).

It's August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean to seek a mate.

Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now.

Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a personal friend of mine, wouldtell him that you have reason to believe he is mistaken.

We need Trump to lead the liberal democratic order around the world. No other nation can do that the way we can, and it's going to be very hard for Congress to do it over his opposition.

We've got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.

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

Freedom is always wise.

The FBI's director's letter to Congress revealed that there were e-mails on Clinton aide Huma Abedin's computer, but that's just about it, just that there were emails, not much more information.

CONGRESS, n. A body of men who meet to repeal laws.

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

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

May the arm of the first member of Congress, who proposes a national religion, drop powerless from his shoulder; his tongue cleave to the roof of his mouth and all the people say amen.

Low oil prices played a part in a major move by Congress voting to end the 40-year-old ban on exporting American crude oil.

Was the Vietnam conflict a war which should have, as a matter of constitutional law, required a declaration of war by Congress?

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'?.

How many members of Congress go face the people in a town meeting and are prepared to answer questions from the floor. That to me is the real litmus test.

We all have a role to play - the President, Congress, parents, students and schools - in making college affordable and keeping the middle class dream alive.

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.