Congress Quotes

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

Let's not forget that Congress bears a lot of responsibility for many of the problems we have now

Hillary's explanation of the Libyan action to Congress was so good, I wonder who explained it to her?

Congress can't take the year off, election or no election.

I have a great deal of concern for any president and the amount of power they accumulate versus congress. I'm a stickler about the idea of separation of powers.

There are only two economists in Congress and hundreds of lawyers. Does that explain why the government is in such a mess?

Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay

I probably hold more town halls than any member of Congress.

Having plead guilty, I do not believe that I am any different than the vast majority of the members of Congress.

But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.

The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'.

There are people in Congress who aren't very bright. In fact, some of them are just plain brain-dead.

There are so many women on the floor of Congress, it looks like a mall

Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress.

You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.

Congress, the White House and Hollywood, Wall Street are owned by the Zionists.

Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.

No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to congress a power to disarm the people.

Our founding fathers never intended that Congress be a career.

Most people do not realize that there was a paid chaplain in Congress even before the Revolutionary War ended.

During the next four years...unless drastic steps are taken by Congress, the U.S. will have nearly 8,000,000 unemployed and will stand on the brink of a deep depression.

The average term length of a member of congress is approaching 15 years, and the average term length of a convicted criminal is less than three. We've got that backward.

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.

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

It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.

Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.

To gain support in U.S. Congress and from other nations requires clarity, an acceptable mission and an explicit outcome.

Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.

It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.

And always remember, Abraham Lincoln only served one term in Congress, too.

I am Congress; I'm president.

There are even more fatalities from cirrhoses of the liver [than automobiles], yet Congress has not once mentioned outfitting us all with anti- alcohol equipment.

The idea that even the brightest person or group of bright people, much less the U.S. Congress, can wisely manage an economy has to be the height of arrogance and conceit.

Once Congress establishes that one person can live at the expense of another, it pays for everyone to try to do so.

I've often thought that the process of aging could be slowed down if it had to go through Congress.

No power but Congress can declare war, but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own authority may make such military movements as must bring on war?

In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.

As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction.

[An] act of the Congress of the United States... which assumes powers... not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void and of no force.

To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.

My son, Emilio Huerta, is running for congress. He was a young man who was marching and picketing.

Every new generation of LGBT Americans needs to be inspired by leaders who come out - whether in Congress, the nonprofit sector, the NFL, or corner offices of Fortune 100 companies.

After the 1984 Summer Olympics, Reagan wanted to add the U.S. volleyball team to his Cabinet. He figured if they can't shove his programs down Congress' throat, nobody can.

Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.

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

Don't people know that they don't have to heckle the president of the United States? That's what Congress is for.

Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?

As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president.

We are here simply to decide whether Congress should take the taxpayer dollars of millions of pro-life Americans and use them to fund the destruction of human embryos for research.

Serving in Congress has been more than an honor; it has been one of the most exhilarating experiences of my life ... It has been a wonderful ride. It has been a wonderful journey.