Congress Quotes

Too many members of Congress believe they can solve all economic problems, cure all social ills, and bring about worldwide peace and prosperity simply by creating new federal programs.

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

Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution says Congress has the ability to coin money and regulate the currency and doesn't say anything about gold or silver.

Congress should consult experts and consider alternatives and make 100% sure that any step it takes to police the Internet doesn't change the Internet as we know it.

Today it is difficult to find leaders who are independent of the forces that have brought us our problems: The Congress, the bureaucracy, the lobbyists, big business, and big labor.

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

Hey, well, I've been a pretty conservative member of congress.

Man-made global warming was a potential serious threat, and NASA wanted Congress to fund new satellites to study the problem. It was a team effort to get that accomplished.

Congress, even with its frustrations, is the greatest instrument for justice and human welfare in the world.

The Constitution is very clear: Congress has sole discretion over defining who is and who isn't a citizen and how you become one. It's not the 14th Amendment.

The Republican Congress is like a groundhog afraid of its shadow when a government shutdown is talked about.

Every time a Republican wins the White House, whenever Republicans win control of Congress, the Drive-Bys always claim that the message is voters want a balanced and divided government.

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

JFK [John F. Kennedy] was young, glamorous, Camelot, funny, engaging. Congress loved him.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

One battle would do more towards a Declaration of Independence than a long chain of conclusive arguments in a provincial convention or the Continental Congress.

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

Congress did not pass last year's 2006 budget proposals. The 2007 budget proposals are very similar, and once again unfairly target agriculture. I expect Congress to reject them again.

I never thought I would run for Congress. If you look back at a certain reality TV show, you know that.

If I was in Congress, I would not vote to raise the debt ceiling.

Congress is like first grade, only not as well behaved.

I come home every weekend and I still can't believe I represent Las Vegas in Congress. It's such a kick.

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

[Campaign sign when running for Congress in 1967:] Vote for me or I will hold my breath until I turn blue.

All I can say is that with business and the interest of any party before me, I will consider and apply the law as it is written by Congress and informed by precedent.

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

Questions of such gravity go down to the very foundations of the government. If the provisions of the Constitution can be set aside by an act of Congress, where is the course of usurpation to end?

Congress can grant a waiver [for General James Mattis ] and has done that once in history.

Anybody that brings up amnesty in this Congress, we need to just take the scarlet 'A' for amnesty and pin it on them.

Congress should just do its job and pass a transportation-infrastructure bill - a regular bill that doesnt borrow money and mortgage my future.

When Congress talks of tax reform, grab your wallet and run for cover.

At the end of the day, there's not an office complex anywhere on these grounds that I wouldn't be honored to have as a sitting member of Congress.

When it comes to pay raises, Congress always plays the role of Grinch. The bill extends an existing pay freeze for Vice President Joe Biden, specifically, and senior political appointees broadly.

President Trump is a brand. President Trump is more popular than Republicans in Congress among Republicans.

When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.

What Obama did wrong with executive power is he tried to change the law. He tried to ignore the law. And under the Constitution, Article I, all legislative authority is vested in Congress.

President [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton are proposing bringing tens of thousands of Syrian refugees to this country when the head of the FBI has told Congress they cannot vet those refugees.

By statute, Congress has given the president the authority to suspend immigration - any class of immigration if he deems it in the national interest.

These human experiments have gone largely unchallenged and unquestioned by Congress, the medical profession, and the scientific community at large.

Dont count on Congress. Laws come into being because people on the ground demand it.

Every special interest is entitled to justice - full, fair, and complete... but not one is entitled to a vote in Congress, to a voice on the bench, or to representation in any public office.

Oh, if only I could be President and Congress, too, just for ten minutes.

A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward.

Benjamin Netanyahu, understands that the standing ovation he got in Congress this year was not for his politics. That ovation was bought and paid for by the Israel lobby.

I served with General Washington in die Legislature of Virginia...and...with Doctor Franklin in Congress. I never heard neither of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main point.

Many of the opposition [to the new Federal Constitution] wish to take from Congress the power of internal taxation. Calculation has convinced me that this would be very mischievous.

It would not be for the public good to have [a majority in Congress of one party] greater [than] two to one.

Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull.

When my father ran for the state Assembly, the headline said, 'Kean's Son to Run for Assembly.' When my grandfather first ran for Congress, it was 'Kean's son to run for Congress.'

If you think of big, legislative accomplishments, most of them kind of get initiated with the president putting something out there and Congress working on it.